Try Your Hand at This

Kathy MacMillan is an American Sign Language interpreter, consultant, children's performer, and librarian. She served as Library/Media Specialist at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, MD from 2001 to 2005.

Library program planners will want to read Kathy MacMillan's new book, Try Your Hand at This: Easy Ways to Incorporate Sign Language into Your Programs. MacMillan explains how to work with interpreters to provide programming to the deaf community and dispels some of the myths about deafness and sign language. She also addresses how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages and offers advice on how to publicize the programs to the public and within the deaf community.

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 IntroductionPart 4 Part I: Make Your Programs Sparkle with Sign LanguageChapter 5 1. Sign Here PleaseChapter 6 2. "But I Don't Know Sign Language!"Chapter 7 3. What You Never Learned in SchoolChapter 8 4. Seven Simple Techniques for Incorporating Sign Language into Any ProgramChapter 9 5. Hands-On Sign LanguageChapter 10 6. Reaching OutChapter 11 7. Drawing Them InPart 12 Part II: Programs for All AgesChapter 13 8. Baby ProgramsChapter 14 9. Toddler ProgramsChapter 15 10. Preschool ProgramsChapter 16 11. Elementary School ProgramsChapter 17 12. Middle School ProgramsChapter 18 13. Family ProgramsPart 19 Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of ASL ResourcesPart 20 Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Materials to Use with Sign LanguagePart 21 Appendix C: Games and Crafts to Use in ASL ProgramsPart 22 Appendix D: Glossary of Terms Relating to Sign Language and DeafnessPart 23 Appendix E: Glossary of Useful SignsPart 24 Works CitedPart 25 IndexPart 26 About the Author