Tabak, John. <br/><br/>
Significant gestures :  a history of American Sign Language / 
John Tabak. 
 - Westport, Conn. :  Praeger,  c2006. 
 - x, 225 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0275989747 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006021001 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American Sign Language--History.<br/>Deaf--Means of communication--United States.<br/>Deaf--Education--United States.<br/>Deafness--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV2474  / .T3 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>419/.7