Download or read book Don’T Talk with Your Mouth Full written by Marie LaBozzetta Laurino and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every culture, there are guidelines as to what is most appropriate and what actions need to be avoided. This also holds true for the Deaf community and the hard of hearing population. In Dont Talk with Your Mouth Full, author Dr. Marie LaBozzetta Laurino provides a host of dos and donts when learning to become a signer, communicator, or interpreter. Laurino presents helpful tips, motivational moments, and facts related to deafness, such as the importance of respecting the culture and the community; practicing; learning the languages history; using signs correctly; finding a mentor; remembering to breathe. Dont Talk with Your Mouth Full provides advice, aphorisms, and encouragement appropriate for both the occasional signer and the American Sign Language interpreter. Praise for Dont Talk with Your Mouth Full Finally, an easy reference to answer ninety-nine questions I get all the time when people ask me about sign language. These are truisms that are as useful today asthey were twenty years ago and will still be useful twenty years from now. Jerry L. Conner, certified, Florida