Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges with thanks the helpful comments and suggestions made by Dr. Robbin Battison, Dr. Veda Charrow, Dr. Nancy Frishberg, Ms. Laurel Goodrich, Ms. Carol Padden, Dr. William C. Stokoe, Jr., and Dr. James Woodward, and the invaluable services of Ms. Loraine DiPietro in editing the manuscript for publication.

The illustrations in American Sign Language: Fact and Fancy were drawn by Ruth E. Peterson.

Conversion of the booklet to HTML was done by J. Sutton.

The illustrated views of the American manual alphabet are copyright 1965 by David O. Watson and are reproduced with his permission.