Publishers & Mixed Media
SAY IT IN SIGN
(from Say It In Sign .com:)
The Mission: The mission of our business is to provide a better more tangible medium for reading American Sign Language (ASL). It is well known the sign languages around the world do not have a written form. Currently, the ASL dictionaries use pictures with arrows to show how to move your hands to make a sign. It is often challenging to understand how to read the arrows to make the sign correctly. Videos and CDs are good resources but I believe people still want to hold something in their hands when learning or reading ASL.
Lenticular technology gives us the ability to see the movement of a sign in a two dimensional format similar to that of a book or dictionary. By tilting the cards back and forth you can see the beginning location of the sign and the ending location of the sign. Our brains have the ability to “fill in the blanks” between the beginning and ending location of the sign so we know how to complete the whole movement.
Our goal is to create ASL greeting cards, educational flash cards and in the future children’s books, games and posters all using lenticular technology. Our dream is to see Deaf children in a classroom read information on a poster on the wall that is “expressed” in ASL.