Scarecrow Press
Pages: 192
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978-0-8108-5447-5 • Paperback • November 2005 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
978-1-4617-1239-8 • eBook • November 2005 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Kathy MacMillan is an American Sign Language interpreter, consultant, children's performer, and librarian. She served as Library/Media Specialist at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, MD from 2001 to 2005.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I: Make Your Programs Sparkle with Sign Language
Chapter 5 1. Sign Here Please
Chapter 6 2. "But I Don't Know Sign Language!"
Chapter 7 3. What You Never Learned in School
Chapter 8 4. Seven Simple Techniques for Incorporating Sign Language into Any Program
Chapter 9 5. Hands-On Sign Language
Chapter 10 6. Reaching Out
Chapter 11 7. Drawing Them In
Part 12 Part II: Programs for All Ages
Chapter 13 8. Baby Programs
Chapter 14 9. Toddler Programs
Chapter 15 10. Preschool Programs
Chapter 16 11. Elementary School Programs
Chapter 17 12. Middle School Programs
Chapter 18 13. Family Programs
Part 19 Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of ASL Resources
Part 20 Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Materials to Use with Sign Language
Part 21 Appendix C: Games and Crafts to Use in ASL Programs
Part 22 Appendix D: Glossary of Terms Relating to Sign Language and Deafness
Part 23 Appendix E: Glossary of Useful Signs
Part 24 Works Cited
Part 25 Index
Part 26 About the Author
Library program planners will want to read Kathy MacMillan's new book, Try Your Hand at This: Easy Ways to Incorporate Sign Language into Your Programs. MacMillan explains how to work with interpreters to provide programming to the deaf community and dispels some of the myths about deafness and sign language. She also addresses how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages and offers advice on how to publicize the programs to the public and within the deaf community.
— American Libraries
...guides library programming personnel through the common pitfalls of new learners of ASL and the background knowledge necessary to introduce ASL in context, and offers practical information on establishing community partnerships, working with interpreters, and marketing programs. The text also includes sample programs for all ages-baby, toddler, preschool, elementary and middle school, and family programs-annotated bibliographies of ASL resources and materials to use with sign language, games and crafts for ASL programs, a glossary of terms relating to sign language and deafness, and a visual glossary of commonly used storytime signs.
— Reference and Research Book News