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Marvin Teaches Fingerspelling III

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Man speaks to camera with an excited expression. Text. Learn to fingerspell. Increase your speed. Improve receptive skills, from beginner to expert.

Designed to improve receptive fingerspelling skills. Has three sections: learn, practice, and test. Demonstrates each letter of the alphabet in the "learn" section. The "practice" section displays words fingerspelled at varying speeds. User types word after viewing. The "test" section calculates the user's proficiency level of fingerspelling perception. NOTE: Requires Pentium II or equivalent, CD-ROM drive 16x, and Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7.

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Runtime: 0 minutes

Topic: Sign Language
Subtopic: Beginning ASL
Grade/Interest Level: 4 - 12
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Release Year: 2007
Producer/Distributor: Institute For Disabilities Research And Training, Inc.
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Block letters A, S, L have the American flag across them. They appear over a C, G, I background of water and a blue sky with white clouds.

Man with a brown sport coat uses sign language in front of a bookshelf and a framed document. Caption. "And that's why this is his name sign."

Man wearing a denim shirt and red necktie uses sign language in a classroom with a green chalkboard with a clock face drawn on it. Caption. "When you wake up, stretch, get up in the morning."

Bronze statue of an older man with a large collared coat sitting with his arm around a young girl wearing a dress. Caption. "Gallaudet excitedly met with Alice."

Woman with medium-length blonde hair in a white and gray striped sweater uses sign language in front a green marbled background. Caption. "All of those represent 1 thing."

Man wearing a black turtleneck faces camera and uses sign language. Caption. You can practice reading my signs.

Man wearing a black turtleneck faces camera and uses sign language. Caption. Need.

Man wearing a green turtleneck faces camera and uses sign language. Overlay photo of 2 runners in starting position to his side. Caption. This sign means to run fast.

Doctor speaks to a woman standing next to him. A boy sits on a hospital bed extending a bare foot out in front of him. Caption. But, we'll have to take some x-rays just to be sure.

Man wearing a green turtleneck faces camera and uses sign language. Text on banner reads, "Business." Caption. Business.