Title: This book falls far from its own goal.
Product review: This book seems to wish to accquaint the reader with Deaf culture and American Sign Language. Lamentably, it fails to do either. It's infantile drawings of signs fail to include the full face and upper body motions of most signs and thus exclude the primary sources of meaning in American Sign Language, eye gaze and facial expression. Obviously this book was highly influenced by hearing individuals with minimal contact with the deaf community as it reflects only a surface familiarity with ASL. I even found the famous Gallaudet University misspelled as "Gallauden University" only two lines under a properly spelled name of its founder Edward Miner Gallaudet. Truly this is an idiot's guide in every sense and only recommended if you with to appear as an idiot in Deaf culture.
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