Fingerspelling 1

student video

Fingerspelling 1 [videorecording]: student video / produced by Missy Keast.

Contains a 16-week curriculum to teach fingerspelling to first time students. Lessons are taught using real-life scenarios. Home assignments, practice tests, and exams are included.

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Hear and Now

Hear and now [videorecording] / a film by Irene Taylor Brodsky.

The daughter of 65-year-old deaf couple Paul and Sally Taylor documents their decision to receive cochlear ear implants that may allow them to hear for the very first time. Although entirely capable and successful without the surgery - Paul as a developer of early deaf-assistive technology, Sally as a strongly communicative and gifted lip reader - the surgery is expected to be life-changing. In the first half of the film the filmmaker, her siblings, and their parents discuss their childhood memories of life with hearing impairment. The second half of the film includes the surgery itself and the aftermath, as Paul and Sally recover, work through health and emotional complications, and begin the discovery process.

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William Shakespeare's Twelfth night

performed in American Sign Language and English

William Shakespeare's Twelfth night [videorecording]: performed in American Sign Language and English / directed by Peter Novak.

The Amaryllis Theater Company in Philadelphia, directed by Peter Novak, performs William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night in ASL (with English voiceover). The DVD also features optional captions and a menu of each act and scene. Additional materials, including lesson plans, play synopsis, character names in ASL, themes of Twelfth Night, a downloadable and printable copy of the play, essays about Shakespeare's life and career, ASL translation issues, and more are available at http://www.aslshakespeare.com.

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