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Here are some selected school-related signs that can be found on the web:

clock Basic Guide to ASL
ASL Browser
computer Basic Guide to ASL
ASL Browser
Handspeak.com*
desk ASL Browser
gym ASL Browser
paper Basic Guide to ASL
ASL Browser
pen Handspeak.com
pencil ASL Browser
ruler ASL Browser
(school) bus ASL Browser
LessonTutor
scissors Handspeak.com*
ASL Browser
stapler ASL Browser
teacher SignHear
ASL Browser
LessonTutor

More School Signs

On the Web

LessonTutor has a page just for school signs. The page has simple black and white illustrations of selected school related signs.

On Video

The Institute for Disabilities Research and Training has School Days: An ASL Word Book, an electronic book with video and pictures.

Sign Enhancer's Bravo Family series includes Beginning ASL Lesson 07: A School Daze, featuring a visit to a school for the deaf and demonstrating educational signs. This video product can be bought through a vendor of deaf/hard of hearing products.

In Books

Signed English for the Classroom is a book from Gallaudet University Press that is focused on teachers (compare prices). Another one from GU Press is the Signed English Schoolbook, a more comprehensive book with vocabulary for both teachers and parents (compare prices).

Garlic Press offers the book Signing at School, an inexpensive paperback book with fewer than 100 signs (compare prices).

Updated: December 17, 2007
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