ASL Activities,

Books, & Teaching Materials for Students of All Ages 

Teacher Resouces Student Resources
ASL Teacher Associations ASL Books
ASL Activities ASL Papers
ASL Lectures Deaf Culture
ASL Reviews Great ASL Links
ASL Visuals Great ASL/Deaf Listservs

ASL Teacher Associations:

 

ASLTA
            American Sign Language Teachers Association

FASLTA
            Florida American Sign Language Teachers Association

TeachASL
            LISTSERV for Teachers of ASL

Other (Foreign) Sign Language Resources
            Signed Languages from Around the World


What else (ASL/Deaf) is on this page/site:

ASL Activities    Books       Lectures   Reviews 
Deaf Culture    Great ASL Links    Videotexts

 

ASL Activities

 

ASL Does The Tango
    Spatial relationships:  Chinese shape puzzles combined with Argentine dance movements

ASL:  Row, Row, Row
    Fluency, body language, facial expressions, sign parameters

Go Fish!
    Turn taking, attention getting, yes/no-questions, targeted vocabulary: numbers, colors, clothing, classifiers, names, etc.

Roadmap Easyrh-q ... Why Me Lost Why?wh-q
    Receptive/expressive (giving/reading) directions, signer's perspective, city/street vocabulary
 

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ASL Lectures

ABC Stories
See an example of this unique literary form of ASL word play

Ask to the Falcon, Ask to the Ant 
Notes on the 4 functions of locus in ASL ... it not easy reading, but it's full of facts!

deaf vs Deaf:  Handicap or Cultural Minority?
Being Deaf is a cultural, linguistic minority, not a handicap.

Interpreters ... Who Needs 'Em? 
Fact-filled lecture perfect for businesses effected by the ADA

Momma Says "Don't"; Deaf Say "Do!"
ASL cultural & linguistic behavioral norms

PMS in ASL ... Phonology, Morphology, & Syntax
Examine the building blocks of ASL

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Reviews of ASL & 
Deaf Culture Materials

ASL Dictionary on CD-ROM
The 4 T's of working with the ASL Dictionary on CD

My #1 Pick:

***In the Land of the Deaf /Nr; Nicol Philibert; VHS Tape; ISBN: 6303585914

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ASL Papers

Here are some papers I've written for use my students:

Language Origins (how languages began)
Which Came First?  ASL or LSF?  (ASL did!)
 

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ASL Books

... if you'd like to see what I've found that I like, click here :-)

ASL Texts     Deaf Culture Books      Dictionaries 
Linguistics    Teaching    Miscellaneous

These books are available for on-line purchase through Amazon.  If you click on a link here, you can get a bit more info on the book itself and even place an order.

If you decide you do want to order any of these books, please access each title through my link to Amazon.  That way, they'll credit me for the sale.

I'll keep adding (and reviewing) books each week or so.  I'll try for alphabetical order by title :-)

My favorite picks will have a * nearby.

Teaching & ASL

If you're a teacher of ASL and don't already belong to ASLTA (American Sign Language Teachers Association) join up right away!  It's a professional organization, under the umbrella of the NAD (National Association of the Deaf).

 

Deaf Culture

Deaf Culture Books   Lectures    Visuals

Visuals:

A Stick Figure Perspective on Deaf Culture
Smiley faces with a Deaf point of view

To get to the top of the ASL page, click here.

Great ASL Links

Agora Language MarketPlace now has an ASL page. The ASL page lists a number of publishers and distributors of ASL materials and assistive devices.

 A Basic Guide to ASL ... somebody went to an awful lot of trouble to key in all this information, but it's an explanation of how to move your hands dictionary and, as such, not all that useful for a three dimentional language.  You'd be better going to the Animated ASL Dictionary.

Animated ASL Dictionary is a great place to see signs in motion.

Cindy's Homepage on ASL & Deaf Culture ...  (out of Tampa, FL)

Communicating with Deaf People: A Primer ...  Substance and Alcohol Intervention Services

The Deaf Resource Library   ...  (used to be:  Karen Nakamura's Deaf Culture Page) It's the place to find just about everything on Deafness worldwide!

Deaf Resource Links page... how to contact all the other Deaf culture people.
 Finger Sign Language
Gallaudet Research Institute

Gesture Recognition Home Page  ... it isn't all sign ... but it's interesting to see where sign has gone :-)

Latrobe University's Deaf Sites
           Deaf Studies
           Deaf Studies : a guide to Library resources

The Silent World ... a great poem.

Sign Language - InfOsite ... resources related to sign language

Sign Linguistics Resource Index

Tampa Bay Interpreters Network ... everything you'd want to know about hiring a "terp" in Tampa.

Welcome to Deaf Clubs ... a true Deaf club ... all the social info you could want on the 'net!

Welcome to DeafChat.com ... online chat with the Deaf.

Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico

PS ... If it looks like Agora and I share a lot of the same Academic websites, it's because they asked me to put the ASL page together for them :-)

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Great ASL/Deaf Listservs

DEAFDIGEST (both the Blue Section & the Gold Section) are free, weekly e-mail newsletters for anyone interested in the deaf. For DEAFDIGEST subscription requests, mailto:barry@clark.net

TAMPA BAY AREA "DEAF EVENTS" CALENDAR, created and updated by Ed Marquardt, is strictly non-profit ... but a great resource if you're headed to Central Florida.  To subscribe, contact:  mailto:eddm@gte.net.

TeachASL comes either "digested" or "undigested" :-) ... and is a great resource for Teachers of ASL.  Members do not as a general rule, however, answer questions from students.  This is strictly a working list :-).  To subscribe, go to www.teachal.org

Terps-L comes either "digested" or "undigested" :-) ... and is a great resource for Interpreters of ASL.

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