Language and Communication
Websites
Clerc Center Archived Webinars
Three Clerc Center webinars are now available for viewing at your convenience: Sharing Power: Practical Strategies for Power Struggles with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, and parts one and two...
An online sign language resource - Study. Learn. Acquire! Includes an online ASL dictionary, a 'sign of the day', and information about sign language and Deaf/visual culture.
15 principles for reading to deaf children
This link will bring you to a document talking about 15 principles for reading to Deaf children created by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center.
The Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) is a joint project between the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf and the Georgia Institute of Technology. This link will bring you to their...
AG Bell Association for the Deaf
The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) helps families, health care providers and education professionals understand childhood hearing loss and the importance...
VOICE for Hearing Impaired Children – Alberta Chapter
VOICE for Hearing Impaired Children offers support to families with children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) across Canada.
Hands & Voices – Alberta Chapter
Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing without a bias around communication modes or methodology.
For the international website...
Promotes professional development and access to the entertainment, visual and media arts fields for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Texas Math Sign Language Dictionary
This is a dictionary of ASL and SEE mathematical terms. It can be used by teachers, parents, sign language interpreters, and students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
PROJECT SOLVE offers high school teachers a platform to provide students who are deaf or hard of hearing independent assignments for practicing and improving their analytical thinking and problem...
ASL Tales (American Sign Language)
This website allows you to purchase stories translated into ASL. This site has been designed specifically to help teach American Sign Language to children.
NTID SEA: Supporting English Acquisition
This website is designed to provide resources for teachers to help their students who struggle with English language acquisition.
This Gallaudet University website provides instructional support and writing advice for educators and deaf or hard of hearing students.
This websites provides lesson plans and programs that use video stories appropriate for children in elementary school who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Bilingual Language Arts Activity Kits
A website that contains a set of 10 bilingual language arts kits to teach 10 different topics. These kits incorporate social cultural perspectives in teaching/learning for children who are deaf....
Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
AVLIC is a professional association that represents interpreters in Canada whose working languages are English and American Sign Language (ASL).
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Society (DHHS) is a charitable community based organization that has been providing services in Alberta since 1961.
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center Resources
The Clerc Center offers publications as free downloadable documents on a variety of topics related to the education and development of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The Canadian Helen Keller Centre
The Canadian Helen Keller Centre’s goal is to inform persons who are deaf-blind, their families, service providers, volunteers, supporters, and the general public about the needs, concerns and...
A comprehensive online sign language resource for educators, students, or anyone interested in American Sign Language. This site lists the commonly used signs for conversational signing in...
LifePrint: American Sign Language University
This website is designed to supplement/support ASL students’ classroom learning.
ASL Video Dictionary & Inflection
This site has a dictionary that shows 2,700 signs and how to use most of them in sentences
American Sign Language Library
This web site is designed to provide ASL vocabulary for subject specific terminology found in K-12 classrooms.
Books
The NorQuest Reader 1 Project consists of a book with 15 English stories, and a CD. The CD contains all 15 stories, as well as video clips of the text in American Sign Language (ASL). Words and...
Videos
Human Rights Watch - The Power of Sign Language!
Deaf children have a right to a quality education, like all other children, in a language and environment that maximizes their potential.
Human Rights Watch documented cases of deaf children...
“I See What You Mean”: Visualizing English Grammar by Dr. Kristin DiPerri (VL2 Archived Lecture)
“Research on visual language and learning for deaf children continues to underscore the necessity for a pedagogical revision in the way we teach English literacy skills. However, there is often a...
Early Intervention: The Missing Link
An inspiring, must-see video from ASLized. English version is available at http://aslized.org/files/2011/12/...
Through Your Child’s Eyes: American Sign Language
An engaging video about the importance of language access in the development of children. It explains that for Deaf children, this often means early access to American Sign Language (ASL), which...
A brief animated video (41 seconds) that explains how we hear and interpret the sounds that are around us.
A short video that explains a few ways to show courteous and proper manner when speaking to a person who is deaf.
Tutorials
Tutorials
Tutorial: Bilingualism and the Brain
This tutorial provides a snapshot summary of the research conducted by Dr. Laura Ann Pettito and VL2 colleagues. It provides a sampling of the academic research and news articles that explain why...
Tutorial: Communication Matters
Communication Matters! is intended for educators who have little or no experience of working with children and young people who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). The resource aims to develop...