SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES:
A RESOURCE PATHFINDER
Databases
ProQuest (no selection of individual database needed)
WilsonWeb (select “Social Science Full Text” and “Education Full Text”)
FirstSearch (select ERIC from drop-down menu at “Jump to Advanced Search”)
CSA (check the box next to “PsycARTICLES” and click on “Continue to search” at top of database list)
Gale (select “Academic OneFile”)
Journals
Individual Full Text E-Journals (select “Social Science” in drop-down window under “Browse e-journals by subject” and click on “Search.” Next, click on “Disabilities” under the heading “Social Welfare & Social Work.” There are 39 journals listed.)
Print Journals in the Madonna Library
American Annals of the Deaf
DBL Review
Deaf Life
Gallaudet Today
JADARA: Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Assn.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Journal of Interpretation
NAD Magazine: A Publication of the National Association of the Deaf
Sign Language Studies
Views
Volta Review
Web-based Information
Associations
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
National Student Speech Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
Council on Education of the Deaf (CED)
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
Deafness Research Foundation
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
Resources and Links
American Sign Language Browser (Deaf Education site sponsored at Michigan State University “…where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.”)
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/
ASL Dictionary of Religious Signs (With no claim to be comprehensive, “Deaf Missions” aims “…to provide a reliable, high-quality internet reference source for anyone interested in religious signs.”)
http://www.deafmissions.com/?PageID=18
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (at Gallaudet University)
Information on Deafness
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfotoGo
Deaf Linx (A large selection of resources with the aim of “Fighting audism through empowerment and education”)
The Deaf Resource Library (“…an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States…”)
Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries/Deaf Studies Resources (Comprehensive site with inevitable “dead” links included)
http://wally.rit.edu/internet/subject/deafness.html
Selected Circulating Titles in the Madonna University Library
HV2391 M4 2004
The world of deaf infants: a longitudinal study. New York: OUP, 2004.
HV2391 S58 2001
Inner lives of deaf children: interviews and analysis. Washington DC, Gallaudet, 2001.
HV2395 M36 2003
Many ways to be deaf: international variation in deaf communities. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2003.
HV2402 M56 2006
Reading between the signs: intercultural communication for sign language interpreters. Boston: Intercultural Pr., 2006.
HV2402 N49 2006
New approaches to interpreter education. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2006.
HV2430 D412 2008
Deaf cognition: foundations and outcomes. New York: OUP, 2008.
HV2474 D46 2005
Sign to learn: American Sign Language in the early childhood classroom. St.Paul: Redleaf Pr., 2005.
HV2474 G73 2003
Talking with your hands, listening with your eyes: a complete photographic guide to American Sign Language. Garden City Pk.: Square One Pub., 2003.
HV2474 H69 2007
It's not what you sign, it's how you sign it: politeness in American Sign Language. Washington,DC: Gallaudet, 2007.
HV2474 I563 2001
An intellectual look at American Sign Language: clear thinking on American Sign Language, English, and deaf education. Wilsonville: Kodiak Media, 2001.
HV2474 L53 2003
Grammar, gesture, and meaning in American Sign Language. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
HV2474 L83 2001
The sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2001.
HV2474 L835 2003
What’s your sign for pizza?: an introduction to variation in American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2003.
HV2474 S68 2004
Sign language interpreting: exploring its art and science. Boston: Pearson, 2004.
HV2474 S69 2001
Language in hand: why sign came before speech. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2001.
HV2474 S994 2000
The syntax of American Sign Language: functional categories and hierarchical structure. Cambridge: MIT, 2000.
HV2474 T3 2006
Significant gestures: a history of American Sign Language. Westport: Praeger, 2006.
HV2474 T46 2002
The American Sign Language handshape starter: a beginner’s guide. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2002.
HV2474 T876 2002
Turn-taking, fingerspelling, and contact in signed languages. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2002.
HV2474 V35 2005
Linguistics of American Sign Language: an introduction. Washington, DC: Clerc Bks.,2005.
HV2475 G35 2005
The Gallaudet dictionary of American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2005
HV2545 P35 2005
Inside deaf culture. Cambridge: Harvard, 2005.
KF480.5.D4 S54 2008
The human right to language: communication access for deaf children. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2008.
P115 M785 2006
Multilingualism and sign languages: from the Great Plains to Australia. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2006.
P117 E46 2002
Language, cognition, and the brain: insights from sign language research.
Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
P117 F69 2007
Talking hands: what sign language reveals about the mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
P117 S53 2007
Sign languages in contact. Washington, DC: Gallaudet, 2007.
RF292 G465 2004
Genetics, disability, and deafness. Washington DC, Gallaudet, 2004.
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W.Vine 1/31/08; Updated 8/4/09