The Deaf Resource Library (http://www.deaflibrary.org)
is a virtual library -- an online collection of reference material
and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in
Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related
topics. While I have a bias towards cultural Deaf models, I have tried
to include more material about hard of hearing issues as well.
The information is collected here as a service to the Deaf, hard of hearing,
and hearing communities. I gladly welcome contributions to this online library
by e-mail (contributions <at> deaflibrary.org). However, I am unfortunately not
able to respond to e-mailed questions about Deaf culture or Deaf society. I would kindly suggest asking the research
librarian at your local college for assistance.
You'll get an auto-reply back
when you send me e-mail, you might want to read it here first!
Please, please notify me (brokenlinks <at> deaflibrary.org) if you notice any
broken, moved, or outdated links. It's only with the help of others that I'm
able to keep track of these many links. Please note that if it's not listed
here or if the link is broken, I don't know where it moved to.
Please try Google
and if you find the link, please e-mail me it to me. Please note that I might not be able to update the site or respond to your e-mail immediately, but I'll do my best to remove dead links and add any new information that comes in.
Who am I?
The Deaf Resource Library was created in 1995 and is being maintained by myself, Karen Nakamura. I'm
an Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. I've
been studying disability culture, history, and political/social movements in Japan
and the United States for the past decade. Please visit my
academic home page at Yale for more information about my academic background
and courses that I teach.
Deaf Bibliographies
These bibliographies were mainly for my own research purposes way, way back in 1995-98. I
recoded the general bibliography to include a general reading list. I also strongly
recommend visiting Amazon.com
and typing in "Deaf" as a search topic.
I haven't added to these bibliographies in the past severalyears decade, so they're a bit (quite? severely?) out of date.
Spain: Federacio de Sords de Catalunya (Fesoca)
-- "our federation is at the city of Barcelona (Spain, Europe) and gives different services to deaf
people of the spaniard province called Catalunya (Spain)."
Spain: ARANS-BUR -- a "parents of
deaf people's organisation" in Burgos (Spain)
World: http://www.deaflympics.com/ - International Committee of Sports for the Deaf, or the Deaf Olympics, formerly called Comité International des Sports des Sourds, CISS (The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf).
Switzerland: Pisourd.ch -- " Un site destiné aux sourds, aux parents d'enfants sourds, aux professionnels de la surdité ainsi qu'à toute personne concernée ou/et interessée par la surdité"
USA-WA: DeafWeb Washington -- detailed info regarding government, business, and services available for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Washington State
International Deaf Education and Advancement Fund -- a scholarship fund deaf and hard of
hearing students from developing countries who demonstrate financial
need, maintain an above-average grade point average, and are committed
to returning home to help their deaf communities in educational or
social advancement
Listing of Graduate Schools -- "here you have to search by the topic "special education" and then by the
desired region of the U.S. you are interested in. I don't recommend this one
b/c not all the schools list that they offer a Deaf Ed. program. I only found
8 in the U.S. on this site and that was way off" -- Monica Vance
These are the only scholarships that I know of. (Please don't e-mail me asking if I know of
any others because if I knew about them, I'd put them here). If you know of a scholarship that isn't listed,
please e-mail and let me know.
UK: DeafLingual.com - "communication and translation, Deaf awareness training, British Sign Language tutoring and media services"
USA: ASCDeaf.com - "Alternative Solutions Center is a Deaf-owned and operated psychotherapy and consulting practice staffed by licensed professional therapists."
USA: International Hearing Dog - " We train dogs to assist people that are deaf and hearing impaired at no cost to them. Our organization places dogs all over the United States. The dogs help assist with alerting a person to sounds in their home and working environment."
USA: National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) in Special Education through Technology, Media and Materials -- "promotes the effective use of technology to enhance education outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical, and social/emotional disabilities
USA: Center for Diseases Control and Prevention National AIDS Hotline's TTY Service (click on National AIDS hotline link to get to the TTY service page)
USA: Deaf Empowerment's mission is to empower Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals to lead more productive lives through advocacy, education and community involvement
USA: ADARA is the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association. They publish a professional journal called the Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association or JADARA.
USA: http://www.k12academics.com/ushers_syndrome.htm - a website devoted to providing resourceful information for a number of topics in education and disabilities and disorders ... with an information page for Usher syndrome including signs & symptoms, history & cause, Usher Syndrome I, II & III, support services, special education schools & books for the genetic impairment.
USA-FL: National Deaf Academy -- " a unique residential treatment facility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children, adolescents and adults"
USA-IL: Illinois Service Resource Center -- " the coordination center for services for children throughout the State of Illinois who are deaf or hard of hearing and exhibit behavioral and mental health challenges"
USA-KS: KPAHIC -- Kansas Parents Association for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
USA-MA: Boston Center for Independent Living, has just been awarded a contract that allows us to offer free specialized telecommunications equipment to all eligible applicants in Massachusetts.
Note that most sign language teachers do not recommend learning fingerspelling by individual letters and
also remember that fingerspelling is NOT the same as ASL
USA-IL: Illinois Service Resource Center -- " the coordination center for services for children throughout the State of Illinois who are deaf or hard of hearing and exhibit behavioral and mental health challenges"
USA-NY: Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle offers services, classes, and
programs to Jewish deaf people in Westchester County. Contact
Jonathan Meyer (
; fax 914-699-6954) for details.
USA: BrainPOP produces online, animated educational films for children in grades K-12
USA: Captioned Media Program
-- "Provides free-loan captioned films/videos service to Deaf/HOH,
parents, teachers, and others working with Deaf/HOH; provides free
captioning information to media producers/distributors and others;
provides listings of captioning agencies; and evaluates captioning
agencies who perform open-captioned work for the U.S. Department of
Education."
USA: The Verbatim Court Reporters Center contains a searchable database of competent, professional court reporting, realtime, captioning and other related support services.
VRC also serves as a world-wide resource for members
of the deaf, hard of hearing, and late-deafened communities seeking
to locate realtime and/or captioning services.
www.windmillworks.com - created several software programs for deaf and hard of hearing students that employ matching games to reinforce vocabulary and syntactic structures.
Omer Zak's TTY FAQ -- including info on how to connect a PC to a TTY (last updated in 1997....)
http://www.signgenius.com - a software company specializing in the development of educational sign language software.
Bella Online --
weekly feature articles and links, primarily on educational issues but also includes Deaf culture, technology, etc....
NurseWeek's Hearing Loss: the Hidden Epidemic
-- written by two RN's who are hearing impaired (their terminology); the article gives
a good description of adult onset hearing loss; although is scant on the concept
of being culturally Deaf.
Italy:AUDIES Web
-- brought to you by the National Association for
the Fight Against Deafness and the Defence of Hard of Hearing and Late Deafened People
United Kingdom: Hearing Concern
(the British Association of the Hard of Hearing) is
the national organisation in the UK run by and for hard of hearing,
partially deaf and late deafened people
Barry Strassler produces DEAFDIGEST and DEAFSPORTZINE, to subscribe send him an
.
-- Informed consent warning: there have been some complaints of Mr. Stassler involuntarily adding ("spamming") people onto his e-mail list and refusing to
take them off.
Nathan Prugh is the Editor of
Deaf Magazine.
It has a
WWW page,
FTP site,
and mailing list (to subscribe: mail to
,
leave subject blank, in body, type
"sub deaf-magazine firstname lastname").
The USENET newsgroup and mailing list Deaf-L (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deaf-l/
)
TeachASL ... a listserv for Teachers of ASL. To subscribe
no subject needed, body: sub TeachASL yourfirstname yourlastname.
It also has a webpage: http://members.aol.com/alysser/teachasl.htm
EDUDEAF is for deaf, teachers of the deaf, and other professionals
working with the deaf. Also there are many parents of deaf children
online. To subscribe send a request to
and then in the body of the letter type
SUBSCRIBE EDUDEAF. -- Courtesy of Ted McDonald
The TERPS-L mailing list (for Interpreters whose Working Languages include a Signed Language) can be accessed by sending an e-mail message to
with the message body saying "SUBSCRIBE TERPS-L FIRSTNAME LASTNAME". Leave the subject blank.
"Beyond hearing" appears to be a mailing list for hard of hearing,
late deaf, and other folks. There are a bunch of professional people
on it and many of the members belong to SHHH (Self-Help for the Hard
of Hearing). If you think this fits your interests, you
can subscribe by mailing to "
" with a blank
subject line and the message "subscribe beyond-hearing". --
Thanks to Arnold Saslavsky
FLASH (www.deafvision.com/lists/FLASH) -- national news and announcement 'zine for the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgendered community. Published electronically since 1994.
NOISE (Network for Overcoming Increased Silence Effectively) is intended as a forum
to discuss topics of concern to hard of hearing/ deaf medical professionals (human
medicine, dental, nursing, veterinary, veterinary technicians, etc)
world-wide. It is also intended to be a means of support by linking hard of
hearing/deaf medical professionals from various backgrounds and geographical
regions. NOISE will also be open to professionals closely affiliated to
such individuals (i.e.: disability offices and schools of education) in
order to allow these professionals a means of collecting information in
order to assist hard of hearing/deaf medical professionals. NOISE will also
be open to hard of hearing/deaf students of at least fifteen (15) years of
age, who are interested in a medical career. This will allow such students
a means for collecting information so they may make an educated decision
about the feasibility of pursuing a medical career. To subscribe the NOISE mailing list, the interested party should send an
e-mail message to the administrative address:
with the BODY of the mail consisting of the following:
subscribe NOISE Firstname Lastname -- thanks Danielle N. Rastetter
The Deaf UK Mailing List is for all deaf uk people and is for
discussion about deaf issues as well as stories, jokes, arguments,
and other things related to the deaf community. To subscribe, mail to
.
USA: www.buyasl.com - sells many ASL products such as ASL dictionary dvds, and books, deaf education, and many more.
USA: Deaf Resources
- a family-owned online retailer of Deaf and HOH products.... offer an extensive selection of assistive devices, educational materials, books, videos, clothing, jewelry, baby items, stationery, tote bags, and holiday-based gift baskets.
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