Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language

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Summary: Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes
Review: Aristotle was searching for a man who could study for the sake of studying, who saw learning as an end in itself and who could inspire others with his thoughts.
In my friend, Gabe, Aristotle would have found his guy. A true Renaissance man who began his University curriculum as a Roman Catholic Divinity student, he enjoys and amazingly varied schedule of diverse careers, lifelong passions and seems to know every other person on the Planet.
As the hearing son of deaf parents, he learned how to sign before he could speak and once he learned how to speak, he has never stopped talking or creating a buzz in dozens of different areas of his many-faceted life. Thousands of his students in his New School University classes can attest to his formidable, yet playful intellect, charismatic teaching abilities and funny sense of humor. Gabe's intuitive insights and interviewing skills have elicited and illuminated the thoughts and feelings of hundreds of New School Roundtable and special courses guests, ranging from Muhammad dAli to Julia Roberts to Marcel Marceau.
As the principal court-appointed dactylogist of the NYC judicial system, judges, attorneys, physicians, and psychologists appreciate his clear, nuance-filled interpreting skills. Gabe has performed at the White House, United Nations, on Broadway, at Colleges throughout the US featuring his award-winning show "Reality or Illusion...Mind Over Magic?" Gabe's wonderful motivational magic show as the "Amazing Doctor Can-Do" is a delight for both hearing and deaf children.
Gabe's been a host and guest of hundreds of national and local radio and TV shows. He was executive consultant of the Emmy-nominated ABC Afterschool Special "Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me". He the chief sign language tour docent at the American Museum of Natural History.
Brevity is the soul of Life and Human Life is, or should be, an adventure in self-discovery, learning what talents one has and using them to their fullest. Gabe figured this out early in life. He continues to inspire all of us to take the great leap in personal evolution to "Have fun, to do good and to be happy". I am proud to count Gabriel as my dearest friend.

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Summary: the perfect book has yet to come out
Review: One of the best sign language learning books available. The pictures and desciptions of how to make the sign are excellent. However, no one book has every sign. Buy this for your personal library, it is the clearest book on how to make a particular sign. Even books that I consider very good such as "The American Sign Language Sign Book" by Louie Fant sometimes leave me confused by unclear drawings or descriptions. Gabriel Grayson's book is a great cross reference for times like these or for building your vocabulary to the point where you can move on to learning phrases and grammar.

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Summary: Most Helpful Sign Language Book I've Found!
Review: This book edges ahead of others in that it features clear photographs, has words listed topically, and explains deaf history and culture throughout the book. It is much easier to use than books with a "dictionary" layout. The author has the experience and backing to know what works. I highly recommend it.