TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tabak,John
TI  - Significant gestures: a history of American Sign Language 
SN  - 0275989747 (alk. paper)
AV  - HV2474 .T3 2006
U1  - 419/.7 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Praeger
KW  - American Sign Language
KW  - History
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Means of communication
KW  - United States
KW  - Education
KW  - Deafness
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index; Ch. 1. Methodological signs and the roots of American Sign Language -- Ch. 2. The natural language of signs -- Ch. 3. Experiment in television and the last of the great Anti-American sign language debates -- Ch. 4. The language of the deaf -- Ch. 5. Race, deafness, and American Sign Language -- Ch. 6. A language like any other -- Ch. 7. Modern ideas about modality -- Ch. 8. The deafblind and American Sign Language -- Ch. 9. Some contemporary trends affecting American Sign Language -- Afterword : the future of American Sign language
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006021001.html
ER  -