1,000 Words to Sign

An introduction to American Sign Language includes an extensive vocabulary section--organized by common themes--with each word clearly illustrated with two to four photographs showing the beginning, middle and end positions of the sign and instructional arrows to indicate movement, in a book that comes with a DVD that includes real-time signing.

Professor Geoffrey Poor is Associate Professor, Department of Sign Language and Interpreting Education, at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Previously he was instructor of ASL at the University of Maine and worked for the State of Maine as a Rehabilitation Counselor for the Deaf. He has helped produce two American Sign Language dictionaries; one on CD for the NTID and one on paper for Barron's Educational.