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ASL and Interpreter Training Program: Deaf Culture, Education, History, Politics

This guide is designed for ASL interpreters, faculty, and students. It includes: books on deaf culture, dc-s, etc.; films & documentaries using ASL; sign language storytelling DVDs, etc.

Deaf History

Place of Their Own : Creating the deaf community in America by John Vickrey
Call Number: 305.90816 VAN CLE

ISBN: 0930323491

The following books cover the history of deaf communities in the U.S. and in other countries.

Deaf History Reader by John Vickrey Van Cleve (Ed)
ISBN: 9781563683596
Deaf history unveiled : interpretations from the new scholarship by John Vickrey Van Cleve (Ed)
Call Number: 305.908162 DEAF HI

ISBN: 1563680211
Deaf World: A historical reading and primary sourcebook by Lois Bragg (Ed)
Call Number: 305.9081 deaf

ISBN: 0814798527
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce
ISBN: 067427041X
From pity to pride : growing up deaf in the Old South by Hannah Joyne
Call Number: 305.9082 JOYNER

ISBN: 1563682702
Illusions of equality : deaf Americans in school and factory, 1850-1950 by Robert Buchanan
Call Number: 305.9081 BUCHANON

ISBN: 156368084X
Journey Into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane
Call Number: 362.42 lane

ISBN: 0915035634
Looking back : a reader on the history of deaf communities and their sign languages by Renate Fischer
Call Number: 305.90816 LOOKING

ISBN: 3927731323
Signs of resistance : American deaf cultural history, 1900 to World War II by Susan Burch
Call Number: 305.9081 BURCH

ISBN: 0814798918

Deaf Culture, Education, Politics

Deaf Culture
Damned for their Difference: The cultural construction of deaf people as disabled by Jan Branson and Don Miller
Call Number: 305.9081 branson

ISBN: 1563681188
Forbidden Signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language by Douglas C. Baynton
Call Number: 419 baynton

ISBN: 0226039633
Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas Holcomb
Call Number: 305.9082 holcomb 2013

ISBN: 0199777543

An exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the concept of culture can be applied to the Deaf experience, and how Deaf culture has evolved over the years.
Many Ways to Be Deaf: International variation in deaf communities by Leila Monaghan, and others (Eds)
Call Number: 305.9081 many

ISBN: 1563681358
Seeing voices : a journey into the world of the deaf by Oliver Sacks
Call Number: 305.9081 SACKS

ISBN: 0520060830
Education
Alone in the Mainstream : A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School by Gina Oliva
ISBN: 1563683008
Deaf Education in America - Visions of children from inclusion settings by Janet Cerney
ISBN: 9781563683626
How Deaf Children Learn: What parents & teachers need to know by March Marschark & Peter Hauser
ISBN: 0195389751
Turning the Tide: Making life better for deaf and hard of hearing schoolchildren by Gina Oliva & Linda Risser Lytle
ISBN: 9781563685996
Politics
Choices in Deafness: Parents guide to communication options by Sue Schwartz
ISBN: 9781890627737
Politics of Deafness by Owen Wrigley
Call Number: 305.9081 WRIGLEY

ISBN: 1563680521

Publication Date: 305.9081 wrigley
Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the deaf community by Harlan Lane
Call Number: 305.9081 lane

ISBN: 0679404627