FrederickHigh School

Resources for ASL Students

Sites for information or practice

• ASL Dictionary or ASL Dictionary2
• ASL STEM Dictionary
• ASL LAB Science Dictionary
• ASL Religious Signs
• ASL PRO - Practice Site/dictionary
• ASL Browser
• Fingerspelling Practice
• Handspeak ASL Dictionary
• Signing Savvy
• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms - basic signs
• VIDEO: An Example of ASL Storytelling

Information on ASL

• Lifeprint.com
• NIH: American Sign Language
• 4 2 Explore - a comprehensive listing of information on ASL including activities, dictionaries, background information, research, a webquest about ASL, etc.

ASL Programs for Advanced Study

• ASL Programs Guide

Deaf Community/Culture Resources

• http://www.deaf.com/ - Information on a variety of topics related to the Deaf community
• http://www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm - information on the pathological vs. cultural models of deafness
• http://www.nad.org/
• http://www.culturepersity.org/deaf.htm
• http://www.deafspot.net/ current news site for the Deaf community – also links to multiple sources of information on topics related to deafness
• http://www.deafread.com/ - a compendium of topics related to deafness, with commentary – lots of topics, comments on today’s issues in Deafness
• http://www.deaf-culture-online.com/

Educational Resources for Deaf Students

• http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/CochlearImplants/ucm062887.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15257666 -"Theory-of-mind development in oral deaf children with cochlear implants or conventional hearing aids" - Candida C. Peterson
• http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rmayberry/pubs/GoldinMeadow-Mayberry.pdf - "How do profoundly deaf children learn to read?" Susan Golden-Meadow, Rachel Mayberry

MSEA Convention Presentation, 2015

Deaf Technology

Information about hearing loss:

• What is hearing loss?

Information about how cochlear implants work:

• NIH: Cochlear Implants
• Types of Cochlear Implants and Baha implants and how they work
• Cochlear Implants
• Cochlear War - The Battle Between Deaf Pro-Implants and Deaf Community Advocates

Simulation of what a CI sounds like:

• Speech
• Music

Information on Cochlear implant controversy:

• Letting the Deaf Be Deaf: Reconsidering the Use of Cochlear Implants in Prelingually Deaf Children - by Robert A. Crouch (journal excerpt)

Information on causes of deafness:

• Help for Parents of Children With Hearing Loss
• Meniere's Disease

The History of Hearing Aids

ASL Links