Links related to American Sign Language and Deaf Culture
General resources on American Sign Language and Deaf
Culture Information on specific topics related to ASL Information on other sign languages Links related to the debate on cochlear implants Fun links related to sign languages |
Deaf Resource Library - numerous links
and resources on Deaf Culture, ASL and other signed languages. An excellent
site from anthropologist Karen
Nakamura NAD – National Association of the Deaf signcity.org – very nice set of resources ASL links from Purple Princess ASL resources for students
– a large set of links from Alysse Lemery Rasmussen American Sign
Language Sites – another large set of links from the Fairfax (Virginia)
County School District Quick Facts on Sign
Language from the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication
Disorders ASL Sign Writing page a writing system
for signed languages, with links to information on other proposed writing
systems Dr. Dave’s Deaf and HOH
resources – Numerous Links on various topics Yamada
Language Guides ASL
resources from the University of Oregon Sign-language
resources from Boston University Everything you wanted to
know about deafness - an FAQ site Sign language
links – links related to a variety of signed languages from the
University of Leiden |
Information on
specific topics related to ASL
LSA resolution – recognizing sign languages
as equivalent to spoken language American Sign Language
Teachers Association ASL Sign Writing page a writing system
for signed languages, with links to information on other proposed writing
systems SignBank – a database of ASL texts in the
movement writing
system developed by Valerie Sutton ASL Access – A volunteer non-profit
organization to place ASL videos and resources in libraries Deafmall – a site with commercial and
informational links- send e-cards in ASL, find theaters showing captioned
movies, and so on.. . Sign Media, Inc. – Resources about ASL
from an ASL publishing company |
Animated ASL Dictionary animated
gifs showing signs in ASL ASL Browser –
another dictionary. This one uses Quicktime to demonstrate signs HandSpeak – another animated
dictionary (using gifs) – arranged by semantic categories as well
alphabetical by English translation Medical ASL
Phrasebook – A glossary of medical terms in ASL |
Information
on Other Sign Languages
Deaf cultures and sign languages
of the global village – A ThinkQuest student-made site about different
sign languages Dictionary
of Psychological Terms in German Sign Language The Russian Manual Alphabet
– The manual alphabet used for Cyrillic Cree hand signals –
from Canadian Digital Library About
Japanese Sign Language – by
Karen Nakamura British Sign Language
by Matthew Chapman, includes .avi files demonstrating signs BritishSignLanguage.com -a
short dictionary of BSL Croatian Sign
Language – video dictionary available in English and Croatian French Sign
Language Online Dictionary Latviesu Zimju Valodas
Vardnica – Latvian Sign Language Bahasa Iyarsat – An
introduction to Malaysian Sign Language Malaysian Sign Language – Resources
included an animated dictionary Ethnologue’s
catalog of
the world’s sign langauges Google
directory listings for sign
languages Australian Sign Language –
information and bibliography |
Links related
to the debate over cochlear implant
Deaf
World Web’s cochlear
implants links – links to information and opions for and against cochlear
implants Cochlear Implants Association – a non-profit
organization for those with implants and their families |
An
interesting outline of the history
of Gallaudet University Deaf Awareness
Week – From the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf – fun trivia
about famous Deaf people in history Deaf humor – a
set of (non-offensive) jokes |