Sign Language for Everyone: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf

Sign Language for Everyone can be used to reach a new generation of the deaf. For those seeking to establish a ministry to the deaf, or simply to provide ASL translation of sermons, the book---written by Dr. Cathy Rice, using her more than fifty years of experience in working with the hearing-impaired---will be a welcome resource. About the Book: "Listen with your eyes . . . Sign Language is a method of presenting thoughts via pictures made with one's hands." People are adaptable. This trait is particularly useful when one of the five senses is weakened and another becomes more acute to compensate for the weakness. So the deaf, when they hear, hear with their eyes. To communicate to the deaf, then, is to translate the speech of the hearing world into the pictures of the seeing world. "It is an amazing truth that Dr. Cathy Rice has had more influence on the ministry to the deaf, through her teaching of Sign Language and getting others to learn and teach it, than anyone else in the w