sign language books

Manual communication guides

Books designed to teach or reference sign languages like ASL, typically featuring illustrations or photographs showing hand shapes, movements, and facial expressions.

Unlike books about spoken languages, sign language books must convey three-dimensional gestures on a flat page: She learned the alphabet from a sign language book.

Many now include QR codes linking to video demonstrations.

Related
  • deafUnable to hear
  • deaf cultureSocial world of the hearing-impaired
  • ASLManual visual communication system
  • gesturesExpressive body movements
  • handsGripping limbs' extremities

communication · interpreters · fingerspelling · visual · silent · closed captions · learning · beginner lessons · grammar · illustrations · diagrams · tutorials · vocabulary · phrases · expressions · manual · facial expressions · symbols

Opposites
modality of language instruction

sign language bookspronunciation guides

Notation for spoken sounds

sensory channel of content delivery

sign language booksaudiobooks

Narrated literary recordings

podcasts · audio recordings · audio lectures

Family

sign, signs, signed, signing, signer, signers, signal, signals, signaled

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G