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
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.culturediversity.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:
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:
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:
The History of Hearing Aids
Contact
Becky DeLameter taught as classroom teacher and special education teacher/co-teacher at various levels for 38 years. She has taught deaf students at Marlton and Maryland Schools for the Deaf, and is currently a high school itinerant teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing with FCPS. This is her 10th year teaching American Sign Language at FHS.