American Sign Language Browser
This site contains an online ASL video dictionary.
https://www.signingsavvy.com
Deaf Linx
The goal of this comprehensive directory of resources in the areas of
Deaf Culture, American Sign Language, Deaf Services, Deaf History, Deaf Education,
etc. is "to provide educational information in order to fight
audism and empower
the Deaf Community."
http://www.deaflinx.com
Deaflympics
"The games are sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, IOC.
But unlike the athletes in all other IOC sanctioned games, including the Olympics,
the Paralympics and the Special Olympics, the Deaflympians cannot be guided by
starter's guns, bullhorn commands or referee whistles. Nor can they
experience the crucial sense of inclusion in other general games because they
cannot just strike up a conversation or in other ways communicate
instantly or in a practical manner with fellow hearing athletes."
Their mission is "To cherish the value the spirit of Deaflympics where Deaf
athletes strive to reach the pinnacle of competition by embracing the motto
of PER LUDOS AEQUALITAS (Equality through sports)
and adhering to the ideals of Olympics."
http://www.deaflympics.com/
Deaf President Now
"In March 1988, Gallaudet University experienced a watershed event that led
to the appointment of the 124-year-old university's first
deaf president. Since then, Deaf President Now (DPN) has become
synonymous with self-determination and empowerment for deaf and hard of hearing people everywhere."
https://web.archive.org/web/
20070220032114/
http://pr.gallaudet.edu/dpn/
DeafNation
This site contains news and events related to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.
http://www.deafnation.com/
Dogs for Better Lives
This organization rescues dogs from animal shelters, trains them to
be service dogs, and places them with deaf and hard of hearing people.
These hearing dogs can alert their owners to sounds such as doorbells,
telephones, alarm clocks, smoke alarms, etc.
https://www.dogsforbetterlives.org/
Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (FOLDA)
"The mission of the Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (FOLDA) is
to promote library access and quality library resources for the deaf community globally."
http://www.foldadeaf.net/home/index.html
Georgia Council for the Hearing Impaired, Inc (GACHI)
GACHI is a statewide service center for Georgia’s
deaf, hard-of-hearing, late-deafened and deaf-blind citizens.
http://www.gachi.org/
Perimeter College American Sign Language Pathway
In addition to studying American Sign Language (ASL), students
can pursue a career in this nationally recognized
Sign Language Interpreting Program.
https://perimeter.gsu.edu/
program_manager/american-sign-language/
Note: Georgia Perimeter College is now Perimeter College at Georgia State University
History Through Deaf Eyes
This Gallaudet University project [Now at the National Endowment for the Humanities] was established to promote
the understanding of Deaf History. The project is composed
of a PBS documentary film, traveling exhibit and book.
https://www.neh.gov/
explore/history-through-deaf-eyes
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (at Gallaudet University)
Gallaudet University's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center "has been mandated
by Congress to develop, evaluate, and disseminate innovative curricula,
instructional techniques and strategies, and materials. The aim of the
Clerc Center is to improve the quality of education for deaf and hard
of hearing children and youth from birth through age 21."
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/
National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
Since its founding in 1880, this organization has promoted and
defended the rights of deaf and hard of hearing people in the United States.
http://www.nad.org
Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf
"The Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD) is a nonprofit organization established in
1977. The purpose of this Alliance is to establish and maintain a
society of Deaf Gays and Lesbians to encourage and promote the educational,
economical, and social welfare; to foster fellowship; to defend our
rights; and advance our interests as Deaf Gay and Lesbian citizens concerning
social justice; to build up an organization in which
all worthy members may participate in the discussion of practical problems and solutions
related to their social welfare."
http://www.deafrad.org/
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This display covers the lives, culture, and history of deaf people in the United States and to a lesser extent other parts of the world as well as American Sign Language and signing in general.
1,000 Signs of Life: Basic ASL for Everyday Conversation.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2004.
HV2474 .A12 2004
Here’s the succinct handbook that will allow everyone to enjoy
the beauty and functionality of American Sign Language. 1,000 Signs
of Life: Basic ASL for Everyday Conversation illustrates a potpourri of
intriguing and entertaining signs that can be grasped quickly and used to communicate
with anyone familiar with ASL, deaf or hearing. Organized alphabetically in
17 categories, this handy paperback offers common signs for animals, food,
clothes, people, health and body, the time, days of the week, seasons,
colors, quantities, transportation and travel, and many more practical topics.
Source:
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SOLbookpage.html
Armstrong, David F. Original Signs: Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
P116 .A754 1999
Original Signs employs a more expansive notion of language
that takes into account the full range of human communicative behavior.
By making no strict separation between language and gesture,
this thought-provoking work reveals that the use by deaf people of
signs to create a fully formed language is also a natural facet of
communication development for hearing people.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/OS.html
Ballin, Albert. The Deaf Mute Howls. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1998.
HV1624.B35 A3 1998
Originally published in 1930, The Deaf Mute Howls flew in the
face of the accepted practice of teaching deaf children to speak
and read lips while prohibiting the use of sign language. The
sharp observations in Albert Ballin’s remarkable book detail his
experiences (and those of others) at a late 19th-century
residential school for deaf students and his frustrations as an adult
seeking acceptance in the majority hearing society.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/0734.html
Beattie, Rod. G. (Editor). Ethics in Deaf Education. San Diego, CA: Academic, 2001.
HV2430 .E84 2001
Ethics in Deaf Education" introduces and clarifies, in a structured manner, the many possible ethical considerations concerning the provision of educational services and habilitation for young children with hearing losses. The decisions that parents or guardians make on behalf of their children, often based on the contributions of educators, habilitation/rehabilitation specialists, and the deaf and medical communities, deserve an airing in a comprehensive manner. What are the issues concerning amplification, implantation, visual communication systems, and sign languages? What technological route should the parents take? What language should they be trying to develop in their child?
Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Deaf-Education-First-Years/dp/0120835223/
Branson, Jan and Don Miller.
Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People
as "Disabled:" A Sociological History. Washington, DC:
Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
HV2380 .B685 2002
In Damned for Their Difference, Jan Branson and Don Miller
have written an important and provocative book that contributes to
the growing debate in disability history about the nature of difference
and how it is culturally defined. Their subject is the "cultural construction of deaf people
as disabled" in Britain from the seventeenth-century to the present and
to a lesser extent in Australia for the modern period.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/
reviews/DFTDrevw2.html
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo and Susan Burch (Editors).
Women and Deafness: Double Visions. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
HV2545 .W65 2006
Edited by professors Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Susan Burch,
Women and Deafness: Double Visions is an anthology of essays by
learned authors discussing deafness and deaf identity in the context of
women’s studies, and vice versa. Pieces contemplate why Helen
Keller, perhaps the most famous deaf woman of all, is remembered primarily
as a champion specifically of the blind; the issue of mothers
raising their children according to oralist dictates "like ordinary hearing children", the significance
and impact of the Deaf American Beauty Pageant, and much more.
A welcome and much-needed contribution addressing serious gaps in both women’s studies
and deaf studies reference shelves.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/
reviews/WADrevw.html
Coffey, Wayne R. Winning Sounds Like This: A Season with the Women’s Basketball
Team at Gallaudet, the World’s Only University for the Deaf. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
GV885.43 .G25 C64 2003
Sportswriter Coffey of the New York Daily News got permission to accompany
Washington, DC's Gallaudet University women's basketball team for the 1999-2000 season.
This is a team chronicle with a twist: the Bison players are all deaf.
Their hearing coach, whose first language was American Sign Language, coaches with
sign language and gestures instead of using a whistle. The Division
III Bisons compete against hearing teams, and their success transforms fan curiosity into respect.
Source: Ruffle, Kathy. "Winning Sounds Like This (Book)."
Library Journal 127(3) February 15, 2002. p152.
Davis, Morris Joseph. Shall I Say a Kiss?: The Courtshhip
Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
HV2534.D38 A3 1999
Shall I Say A Kiss? opens a window into the lives of two
working-class, Jewish, British, Deaf people in the 1930s.
This striking book reveals a consistent, journal-like account of
the "lived" experience of Deaf people during the
tumultuous times just prior to World War II. Because the correspondence is mainly
composed of Eva’s letters, the focus sharpens even further as
a record of the life and opinions of a young, working-class,
Deaf woman about to embark upon marriage and life in a new country.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SISAK.html
Dunai, Eleanor C. Surviving in Silence : A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust : the Harry I. Dunai Story.
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
DS135.H93 D863 2002
Surviving in Silence is one of the few published memoirs of a Deaf Jewish
Holocaust survivor, and perhaps the first by a major
press in any language. As such, it makes a significant contribution to Deaf History
and Holocaust History.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/reviews/SISrevw.html
Glyndon, Howard. Sweet Bells Jangled: Laura Redden Searing:
A Deaf Poet Restored. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
PS2797.S3 A6 2003
Laura Redden Searing (1839-1923) defied critics of the time by
establishing herself as a successful poet, a poet who was deaf.
She began writing verse at the Missouri School for the Deaf in
1858, and, under the pseudonym Howard Glyndon, soon found herself
catapulted into national prominence by her patriotic Civil War poems.
Source:
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SBJbookpage.html
Groce, Nora Ellen. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness
on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
HV2561.M49 G76 1985
From the seventeenth century to the early years of the
twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely
high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast
to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the
Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the
daily life of the community that they were not seen--and
did not see themselves--as handicapped or as a group apart.
Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Here-Spoke-Sign-Language/dp/067427041X/
Hafer, Jan Christian and Robert M. Wilson. Come Sign with Us: Sign Language Activities
for Children. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1996.
HV2474 .H32 1996
Now, the new, completely revised Come Sign With Us
offers more follow-up activities, including many in context, to teach
children sign language. The second edition of this fun, fully
illustrated activities manual features more than 300 line drawings
of both adults and children signing familiar words, phrases, and
sentences using American Sign Language (ASL) signs in English word order.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2794.html
Hepner, Cherly M. Seeds of Disquiet: One Deaf Woman's Experience.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1992.
HV2534.H43 A3 1992
In her autobiography, Seeds of Disquiet, Cheryl Heppner writes
of experiencing severe hearing loss twice…. Seeds of Disquiet celebrates her
accomplishments, the most significant of which, perhaps, was
her reconciliation with her loved ones from her former life with her new outlook.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2854.html
Hermann, Dorothy. Helen Keller: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
HV1624.K4 H47 1998
What ultimately won me over, however, was the manner in
which the author spoke of Helen Keller in connection with
other disabled people, disabled women in particular. The Keller
she wrote about was a woman with her own deaf-blind
reality, a reality Herrmann reported was just as valid as
any nondisabled reality. Without denying the very real
limitations of Keller's life, Herrmann was able to bring
her subject to life as a passionate, vital woman, albeit one whose
life might always remain somewhat of an enigma.
Herrmann's astute observations and articulation of them changed
my mind about her subject. No longer a shadowy disabled
saint, Helen Keller became both my foremother and sister.
Source:
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0199/c199br.htm
Hoffman, Martha. Lend Me an Ear: The Temperament, Selection, and Training
of the Hearing Dog. Wilsonville, OR: Doral, 1999.
HV2509 .H63 1999
Just as there are Seeing Eye' dogs that help the visually impaired, so that are Hearing Ear' dogs that aid the visually impaired. In Lend Me an Ear: Temperament, Selection and Training of the Hearing Ear Dog, author Martha Hoffman draws from her more than twenty-five years of experience as the training director for the Hearing Dog Program to write a 220 page compendium on how to select and train an effective hearing ear dog.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Lend-Me-Ear-Temperament-Selection/dp/1617811211/
Holcomb, Roy K., Holcomb, Samuel K., and Thomas K. Holcomb. Deaf Culture
Our Way: Anecdotes from the Deaf Community. San Diego, CA: DawnSign Press, 1994.
HV2380 .H643 1994
Using humorous stories with illustrations, this classic collection brings deaf culture to life through personal experiences and practical day-to-day information. Various aspects of the deaf world are illuminated through anecdotes, updated in this edition to include new stories about the foibles of the latest communication technologies, including VRS, videophones, email, and instant messaging. Also provided is classroom material for teachers that can be used as excellent supplemental reading for deaf studies, ASL, or interpreting classes, as well as a springboard for discussions about deaf culture.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Deaf-Culture-Our-Way-Anecdotes/dp/158121149X/
Jankowski, Katherine A. Deaf Empowerment: Emergence,
Struggle, and Rhetoric. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1997.
HV2530 .J35 1997
Employing the methodology successfully used to explore
other social movements in America, this meticulous study examines
the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people
to work for social change during the past two centuries.
In clear, concise prose, Jankowski begins by explaining her use of the
term social movement in relation to the desire for change among
Deaf people and analyzes the rhetoric
they used, not limited to spoken language, to galvanize effective action.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2908.html
Jepson, Jill (Editor). No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1992.
PS508.D43 N6 1992
No Walls of Stone is a unique collection of short fiction, essays,
verse, and drama entirely by deaf and hard of hearing writers. This
volume presents a rich variety of superb work by such
well-known authors as Robert Panara, Anne McDonald, David Wright, and Jack
Clemo, and exciting contributions by other previously unpublished, gifted writers.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2855.html
Joyner, Hannah. From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2004.
HV2561.S74 J68 2004
From Pity to Pride examines the experiences of a group of
wealthy young men raised in the old South who also would have
ruled over this closely regimented world had they not been deaf…. In this unique
and fascinating history, Hannah Joyner depicts in striking detail the
circumstances of these so-called victims of a terrible "misfortune."
Source:
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/FPTPbookpage.html
Katz, Eileen et. al. Deaf Women's Lives: Three Self Portraits. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2005.
HV2373 .D43 2005
Three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences
in this unique collection, revealing not only the vast differences in
the circumstances of their lives, but also the striking similarities….
The combined effect of these three Deaf women’s stories, despite the variation
in their experiences, reveals the common thread that weaves through the lives of all deaf individuals.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/
DWLbookpage.html
Laborit, Emmanuelle. The Cry of the Gull. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
PN2638.L22 A313 1999
Emmanuelle Laborit begins her autobiography The
Cry of the Gull with this simple explanation of the
difference sign language made in her life. She learned this
at the age of seven, and the second important discovery for this
young French girl came soon after, when she realized
that being deaf could be a positive part of her identity.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/0726.html
Lane, Harlan L. A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John
Brewster Jr. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
ND237.B8634 L36 2004
Lane's unprecedented biography both vividly and
comprehensively explores Brewster's worlds: he was a
seventh-generation descendant of William Brewster, who led
the Pilgrims on the Mayflower voyage; he was a member
of the Federalist elite; a Deaf man; and, finally, an artist.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Deaf-Artist-Early-America-Brewster/dp/0807066168/
Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert and Ben Bahan. A Journey
into the Deaf-World. San Diego, CA: DawnSign Press, 1996.
HV2380 .L27 1996
In this comprehensive and engrossing study, three distinguished scholars of Deaf culture—one hearing, one deaf, and one coda (child of deaf adults)—offer clear, penetrating insights into the existence and makeup of the deaf world, the community whose natural language—American Sign Language in the United States—is manual and visual.
Source: hhttps://www.amazon.com/Journey-Into-Deaf-World-Harlan-Lane/dp/0915035634/
Lane, Leonard G. Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing. Washington, DC:
Gallaudet University Press, 1990.
HV2475 .L36 1990
Now the standard sign language book for more than
200,000 people has been completely revised and updated!
American Sign Language (ASL) experts updated
this brand-new edition to present more than 500 of the most current
ASL signs in use today, including cross-references for
multiple words expressed by a single sign.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2772.html
Lang, Harry G. A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurection Against
Ma Bell. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.
HE8846.A55 L35 2000
In 1964, of the more than 85 million telephones in the
United States and Canada, less than one percent were used
regularly by deaf people. If they didn't ask their hearing neighbors
for help, they depended upon their hearing children,
some as young as three years old, to act as intermediaries for
business calls or medical consultations. In that same year, three
enterprising deaf men, Robert H. Weitbrecht, James C. Marsters,
and Andrew Saks, started the process that led to deaf people
around the world having an affordable phone system that they could use.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/POOO.html
Lucas, Ceil, Bayley, Robert, and Clayton Valli. What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction
to Variation in American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
HV2474 .L835 2003
This introductory text celebrates another dimension of
diversity in the United States Deaf community — variation in the way
American Sign Language (ASL) is used by Deaf people
all across the nation. The different ways people have of saying or
signing the same thing defines variation in language. In spoken English, some
people say "soda," others say "pop," "Coke,"
or "soft drink." In ASL, there are many signs for
"birthday," "Halloween," "early," and of course,
"pizza."
Source:
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/WYSbookpage.html
Miller, R. H. Deaf Hearing Boy: A Memoir. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2004.
HQ759.912 .M55 2004
Born in 1938, R. H. Miller was the oldest of four hearing boys
with deaf parents in Defiance, Ohio, a small agricultural
community. Deaf Hearing Boy is Miller’s compelling account of the
complex dynamics at work in his family, including the inter-generational
conflicts in which he found himself, the oldest child of deaf adults (CODA), caught in the middle.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/DHBbookpage.html
Monaghan, Leila et. al. (Editors). Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation
in Deaf Communities. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
HV2395 .M36 2003
Deaf communities around the world are as diverse as any other communities, but
share their primary means of communication as the one commonality: the use
of their native Signed Languages. One of the most remarkable examples of
human perseverance is the ability of Deaf communities to pass on,
throughout time immemorial, the knowledge and use of Sign Language
and their cultures in spite of the Aristotelian dictum that those who cannot
hear or speak cannot learn. Since the history of civilization has
been recorded, learned individuals and those in positions of
power continue to be swayed by that line of reasoning despite
plentiful evidence disproving that faulty logic.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/reviews/MW2BDrevw4.html
Neisser, Arden. The Other Side of Silence: Sign Language
and the Deaf Community in America. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1990.
HV2545 .N44 1990
In widely varying encounters, Neisser heard Deaf individuals recall
how their teachers suppressed ASL, how linguists
foster conflicting theories, and how various institutions of the
deaf dilute ASL to suit hearing patrons. This seminal book
reveals the warmth, creativity, and resilience of Deaf people,
and offers an update of the community today.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2798.html
Ollerenshaw, Kathleen Dame. To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
HV2717.O55 A3 2004
To Talk of Many Things is a remarkable account of a remarkable life.
This story covers two world wars and the near sixty years that followed
in a life dominated by mathematics and public service. Profoundly deaf
from birth, Dame Kathleen has never seen her condition as an obstacle.
She traveled widely through Europe between the wars, was a
wartime don at Somerville College, Oxford, served on national education
committees from the 1950s onwards, has been at various times on
the Boards of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Polytechnic and Lancaster and Salford Universities
and in the 1990s chased total eclipses of the sun around the world.
Source:
ttps://www.amazon.com/Talk-Many-Things-Autobiography/dp/0719069874/
Padden, Carol and Tom Humpries. Inside Deaf Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
HV2545 .P35 2005
In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal
historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define
themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search
for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Deaf-Culture-Carol-Padden/dp/0674022521/
Peters, Cynthia. Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.
HV2471 .P38 2000
"The moment when a society must contend with a powerful language other than
its own is a decisive point in its evolution. This moment is occurring now in American society."
Cynthia Peters explains precisely how American Sign Language (ASL) literature
achieved this moment by tracing its past and predicting its future
in Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon.
Source:
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/DALbookpage.html
Ryan, Donna F. and John S. Schuchman (Editors). Deaf People in Hitler's Europe.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
HV2746 .D43 2002
As we understand from the Introduction, there is
a commonality in suffering and a commonality in the scholarship
that studies such suffering. The efforts of researchers and students
of the Holocaust leading to books such as Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe have brought together
survivors and scholars who might not otherwise have met,
to our collective loss. In the ultimate analysis, we are given signal
insights about the nature of life (and death) as a Deaf person under
Hitler, and of life as a Deaf Jew under Nazism,
and of the perversions that were enacted and implemented as part of legislation.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/reviews/DPHErevwA.html
Schein, Jerome Daniel and David A. Stewart.
Language in Motion: Exploring the Nature of Sign. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1995.
HV2474 .S355 1995
This enjoyable book first introduces sign language and communication,
follows with a history of sign languages in general, then delves into
the structure of ASL. Later chapters outline the special skills
of fingerspelling and assess the academic offshoot of artificial sign
systems and their value to young deaf children.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2880.html
Schrader, Steven L. Silent Alarm: On the Edge with a Deaf EMT.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1995.
RA645.6.G4 S37 1995
For 15 years, Steven Schrader worked as a firefighter and an Emergency Medical
Technician (EMT) in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he faced the day-to-day stress created by
having to deal with nonstop human catastrophe, one moment administering to terribly hurt
accident victims, the next talking down a suicidal person from a rooftop.
Added to these difficulties were his own personal struggles, not the least being
the bias he experienced because of his severe hearing loss. Silent Alarm
presents his no-frills, stunning account of survival in a profession with a notoriously
high burn-out rate, and the good that he did as a topnotch EMT.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2888.html
Shroyer, Edgar H. and Susan P. Shroyer.
Signs Across America: A Look at Regional Differences in American Sign Language.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1984.
HV2474 .S476 1984
Signs Across America provides a fascinating and unique look at regional
variations in American Sign Language. The authors contacted native
signers in 25 states to find out their signs for 130 selected words.
The results--more than 1,200 signs--are illustrated in this book.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2745.html
Stewart, David Alan.
Deaf Sport: The Impact of Sports Within the Deaf Community.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1991.
HV2551 .S74 1991
Deaf Sport describes the full ramifications of athletics for Deaf people, from
the meaning of individual participation to the cultural bonding resulting from their organization. Deaf Sport
profiles noted deaf sports figures and the differences particular to Deaf sports,
such as the use of sign language for score keeping, officiating, and other communication.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2819.html
Taylor, Irene. Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal. San Diego, CA: DawnsignPress, 1997.
HV2855.9 .T39 1997
Accompanied by photographs, these stories shed light on the deaf culture and community in Nepal.
Source:
ttps://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Disguise-Deaf-People-Nepal/dp/09150355964
Van Cleve, John Vickrey (Editor). Deaf History Unveiled:
Interpretations from the New Scholarship. Washington, DC:
Gallaudet University Press, 1993.
HV2367 .D4 1993
Deaf History Unveiled features 16 essays, including
work by Harlan Lane, Renate Fischer, Margret Winzer,
William McCagg, and other noted historians in this field.
Readers will discover the new themes driving
Deaf history, including a telling
comparison of the similar experiences of Deaf people and African
Americans, both minorities with identifying
characteristics that cannot be hidden to thwart bias.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2857.html
Van Cleve, John Vikcrey and Barry A. Crouch. A Place of Their Own:
Creating the Deaf Community in America. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1989.
HV2530 .V36 1989
Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the
19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people
began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A
Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on
the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important
insight into the lives of deaf Americans.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2786.html
Wright, Mary Herring. Sounds Like Home: Growing up Black and Deaf
in the South. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
HV2534.W75 A3 1999
Mary Wright’s description of growing up would be
significant even if she were a hearing child in that she describes
childhood in rural North Carolina in the 1920s and l930s in an
African-American family of modest but stable means as property owners
and farmers. She describes her family, school, and social
life in simple and compelling detail…. Wright’s objective in writing
Sounds Like Home was to "chronicle my experiences growing up as a
deaf person" for her children and also for "deaf people" to
dissuade prejudices and stereotypes (p. ix).
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLHreview.html
Zazove, Philip. When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes:
Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1993.
R154.Z39 A3 1993
Born almost totally deaf, Philip Zazove has spent his entire
life beating the odds first by excelling in public schools during
an era when most deaf children went to special schools, then
by aspiring to become a medical doctor. When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes is
the remarkable story of his determination and achievement in realizing his dreams.
Source: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/2865.html
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