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Cranky Scrooge learns the error of his unkind ways and is taught the true meaning of the holidays when he is visited by the ghost of his late business partner and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future. Alastair Sims's performance as the ultimate miser Ebenezer Scrooge has made this beloved 1951 version of Charles Dickens's story into one of the best-loved Christmas films of all time. This two DVD set includes the original 1935 B&W...
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"Explores nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America and presents a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf. The film is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and sheds light on events that have shaped Deaf lives: the creation of schools for deaf students; the debate about American Sign Language; the campaign for deaf-friendly telephone, the TTY; the fight for a deaf president at Gallaudet University; and some...
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This series has been designed to teach introductory counseling skills to students and professionals interested in working with deaf people. They demonstrate techniques and special issues that will arise when working with this population. Each program presents a dramatization of couseling session performed by deaf actors. First the session is shown in its entirety. This is followed by the same session with the addition of narration and inserts....
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This project presents English idioms in sentence format then has two certified interpreters model how to transliterate and interpret each one. The goal of the DVD is to provide a realistic demonstration of what a qualified interpreter would do with the stimulus material. Viewers can watch and listen to the spoken sentence, transliterate the sentence, view the modeled version for feedback, interpret the same sentence, and finally view the modeled...
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Assists interpreters who are seeking to interpret effectively in educational settings. The format is presented so that interpreters can practice interpretation skills from "spoken English (teacher discourse to sign language (for students" and from "sign language (student discourse) to spoken English"
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From their magical world, Alex and Leah invite infant and children to learn to sign. This dvd combines signing children and infants, animation, and music and an adult to model each sign. Teaches signs for woodland animals, bugs and things found outside in nature. Some signs taught include explore, mountain, trail, deer, owl, wolf, skunk, spider, and many more.
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Includes Goodnight Moon, faithfully adapted from the original book, everyone says good night to the moon; A Creature Was Stirring (seen through the eyes of a child, a new adaptation of the classic Christmas poem); and Gladys Goes Out to Lunch (Gladys the gorilla smells something delicious and leaves the zoo to find out what it is)
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Based on a true story, Sue Thomas : F.B.Eye follows the adventures of Sue Thomas at the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy -- and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious criminals to justice. This remarkable, edge-of-your-seat...
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This DVD is designed to lead the viewer through seven sections to improve and accelerate mastery of reading fingerspelled words as a whole unit, forming fingerspelled words fluidly and accurately, and anticipating fingerspelled words based on context. An accompanying booklet is available upon request. This is not a beginning level DVD.
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Looks at what happened to the Artinian Family after their story captured audiences around the world in the original documentary Sound and Fury. That story focuses on the struggle of a family over the surgical placement of a cochlear implant in Heather, their deaf daughter, and their ultimate decision to reject the idea. In this stand-alone follow-up film, Heather at age nine did get the implant as did her Mother and two younger brothers. Now at...
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Demonstrates grammatical features addressed in the 2001 Instruction Guide workbook needed to accompany the video. Grammatical aspects of ASL which are presented include: topic/comment structure; yes/no questions; wh-questions; rhetorical questions; directionality; use of space; negation; classifiers; conditional; and time sequenced ordering. Following an explanation of each grammatical component sample sentences in both PSE and ASL are presented....
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