Sign Language and Deaf Studies Resources

Sign Language

• General
Fonts for Disabilities: Braille and Sign Language
ASL fonts you can download.
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Information on membership and publications from this professional association for interpreters.
Sign Writing
Information on Sign Writing, an "alphabet" of visual symbols used to represent sign languages.
HandSpeak
A Sign Language Dictionary
 
• Education and Research
American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project
Information on research on the structure of ASL and development of multimedia tools for sign language research.
American Sign Language Teachers Association
Local chapters and membership information.

Deaf Studies

• General

  Deaf Art

          Site about deaf culture.

  Deaf Mall

  Links to many deaf sites.

  Deaf Resource Library
  A collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in the United States and Japan.
   
• Education and Research
American Society for Deaf Children
Gallaudet University
• Assessment and Deaf Test-Takers
  Information on using the Stanford Achievement test and other assessment tools..
• Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
  Resources related to the development and education of  deaf and hard of hearing children.
National Deaf Children's Society -UK
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
At the Rochester Institute of Technology
      
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Internet Subject Guides

URL: http://ww3.madonna.edu/library/sign.htm
Updated 7/23/2009