Simplified American Sign Language in Sentence form to develop beginner level communication with deaf people who use gestures to communicate.
Don Cabbage lives in El Paso, TX, and has for the last 50 years traveling across America and into other countries writing sign language books and training interpreters and teachers for the deaf community. He is married to a deaf woman and has worked in educational, professional, social, and religious situations with deaf and hard-of-hearing folks. Don speaks sign language in 13 languages and has written interpreter training material in many of those languages.
Don Cabbage is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys camping opportunities with the deaf community. He lives fishing and hunting. Many deaf men are fellow sportsmen with whom he enjoys outdoor activities.
Training students in the sign language of America, Mexico, and other countries has been a lifelong work. His website is Missionsociety.us. It has a free ASL 1 vocabulary study on it.