From Mime to Sign

This was a very helpful book in a Visual Gestural Communication class as part of an American Sign Language program. You can learn to communicate with anyone using the principles in this book regardless of language barriers. Gil Eastman is a very well known person in the Deaf Community and this is a classic book on teaching facial expressions and body language to communicate.The book is about 180 pages long with many photographs to complement the subject areas. Eastman goes over all types of miming or gesturing such as polite gesturing to others; gesturing to represent three dimensional objects, foods, people, and animals; gesturing to represent emotions with your hands and facial expressions; objects and people in action; and storytelling. It is a well rounded book for anyone interested in Sign Language.

I could not find this book locally. I needed it for a winter class. I was able to find it here and I got it quickly. I passed that class with a B+. Thank you.

The pictures are especially helpful as is the pictorial ASL dictionary in the back of the book. I wish the book went into more explanation as to why and how to gesture things the way the author does. My professor did an incredibly poor job of ever explaining why, so I needed the book to fill in that gap, which is does not. However, I do take into consideration that the book was published in 1989 and a lot has changed since then about how textbooks are written. I wish an update would be made to this content and a new edition would be published.

I knew it was used but it was falling apart after a couple of days use. Had to glue pages back in in order to be able to carry to class twice a week.

Use teaching material

Specifically the book- This book is so old and outdated and it is what is being used in some class for gesture studies.The book was used and came in the condition as described. The seller is 5 star.

School book had to get it

It really helped me on the body language part of asl.