American Sign Language (ASL)/English Interpreting Resources
Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL)/English Interpreting Research Guide. Within this guide, you will find information and links to ASL/English Interpreting related resources that you may find useful for your classwork and research.
The Enchanting Music of Sign Language
Media & Culture
Writing
- ASLwrite"The ASLwrite community is committed to keeping written ASL freely available in the public domain by providing resources for writers of all ages. We believe that written ASL will be changed through regular usage by ASL speakers, and support individual adaptation of the language by the signing community. This website serves as a continuing record of written ASL’s development."
- Photospeaking / Photowriting"The Photocalligraphy series depict a trace of text in Ameslan or ASL (American Sign Language). The artist translates a selected English text into Ameslan or ASL and captures the movement of ASL into a digital image. This process refers to Derridean arche-writing and grammatology."
Literature
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign LanguageCall Number: HV2353 .S53 2006ISBN: 9780520229754
Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the CanonCall Number: HV2471 .P38 2000ISBN: 9781563680946
Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930ISBN: 9781563685668
Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. StokoeISBN: 156368053X
History
The Deaf Community in America: History in the MakingCall Number: HV2545 .N66 2012ISBN: 9780786463978
Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf AmericaISBN: 9781563685156
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign LanguageCall Number: HV2471 .B39 1996ISBN: 9780226039688
It's Not What You Sign, It's How You Sign It: Politeness in American Sign LanguageCall Number: HV2474 .H69 2007ISBN: 9781563683527
A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in AmericaCall Number: HV2530 .V36 1989ISBN: 9780930323493
Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign LanguageISBN: 9781563684883
Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign LanguageCall Number: HV2474 .T3 2006ISBN: 9780275989743
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War IICall Number: HV2530 .B87 2002ISBN: 0814798918
Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American CommunityCall Number: HV2530 .B39 2007ISBN: 9781563683473
Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf CultureCall Number: HV2530 .E39 2012ISBN: 9780814722435
Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf ExperienceCall Number: HV2545 .C85 1996ISBN: 9780521454773
Deaf Education in America: Voices of Children from Inclusion SettingsCall Number: HV2551 .C38 2007ISBN: 9781563683626
Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and LearningISBN: 9781563686702
Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human DiversityISBN: 9780816691210- It’s Not What You Sign, It’s How You Sign It: Politeness in American Sign LanguageCall Number: HV2474 .H69 2007ISBN: 9781563683527
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of DeafhoodISBN: 9781853595462
De'VIA
- De'VIA - Deaf ArtThis site is currently published for archival reasons only. It was intended to be a resource for anyone interested in Deaf Art, particularly the category defined by Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA).
- De'VIA TimelineFrom the RIT/NTID's Deaf Artists website. This site features over 100 Deaf and hard of hearing artists and numerous resources and materials.
Music & Performance
- Rosa Lee TimmRosa Lee is a performance artist known mostly for her YouTube ASL music videos, her work as a solo performer of The Rosa Lee Show, and as a lead actress in ASL Films’ feature film, Versa Effect.
- Deaf Professional Arts Network (D-PAN)D-PAN is a nonprofit organization that has pioneered the art form of creating high quality American Sign Language (ASL) music videos, translating the lyrics of popular songs through ASL.
- National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD)The NTD entertains, educates, and enlightens a wide spectrum of audiences with its unique performance style that blends American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken word.
Videos
Through Deaf EyesCall Number: HV2530 .T47 2007 DVDISBN: 9780793693382Exploring nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America, this film presents the shared experiences of American history--family life, education, work, and community connections--from the perspective of deaf citizens. Interviews include community leaders, historians, and deaf Americans with diverse views on language use, technology, and identity. The documentary also takes a straightforward look at life for people who are part of the cultural-linguistic group who use American Sign Language and often define themselves as "Deaf" with a capital and cultural "D" and deaf people who, for a variety of reasons, do not identify with the Deaf cultural community. The history often shows that intersections between deaf and Deaf people are many and that oppression and discrimination are common experiences.
- Whitney Museum Vlog ProjectWhitney Video Blogs (vlogs) are original short videos featuring Deaf museum educators communicating in American Sign Language (ASL). The vlogs focus on topics in contemporary art or exhibitions on view at the Museum. Each vlog is produced by an integrated team consisting of a director/editor and Whitney educators who are Deaf, working with a cinematographer and interpretive media and education specialists who are hearing. The goal of these vlogs is to increase cultural opportunities for Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and create a communications laboratory to expand the ASL vocabulary of contemporary art terms.
- Lending a Hand Sign Languages and the DeafComplex and highly sophisticated, sign languages have proved excellent tools for analyzing the foundation of human language capability. In this program, Dr. Jonathan Miller weaves together the history of sign languages for the Deaf with insights into the natural synergy between language, vision, and dexterity to support his conviction that there is a common mental structure underlying all languages, regardless of their outward expression. Along the way, Dr. Miller skewers a number of enduring misconceptions—for example, that sign languages are purely iconic and therefore incapable of conveying abstract ideas.
- Far From the TreeFar From the Tree follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non- fiction book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.
A Word About Evaluating Websites
There is a lot of health information freely available on the Internet. Some websites offer up-to-date, authoritative information. Some websites offer out-dated, misunderstood, and incorrect information. To complicate matters, it can be very difficult to tell the two apart. The following will help you evaluate health information websites and allow you to judge each website on its information merit, not just its looks: A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (Medical Library Association).
