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Websites
Websites
From research-based practices, the award-winning PBS Kids literacy program for beginning readers, Cornerstones, offers research-based literacy units for teachers of young students who are Deaf or...
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.
This website has free educational games for children in subjects like math and reading. This link will bring you to their signing (American Sign Language) game.
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.
1001 Books in ASL (American Sign Language)
This free website has a number of popular children’s books, such as Where the Wild Things Are, in a range of translations to meet your student’s language needs. There is an accompanying YouTube...
The Shared Reading Project (SRP) is designed to teach parents, caregivers, and educators how to read with children who are deaf or hard of hearing using American Sign Language, and to use...
NTID SEA: Supporting English Acquisition
This website is designed to provide resources for teachers to help their students who struggle with English language acquisition.
The Fairview Learning reading program is designed specifically for students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Fairview's program provides individuals the literacy tools to construct mental,...
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.
Provides an early intervention service targeting infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing, ages 0-5 and their parents. This site offers a web-based curriculum in English and ASL. See...
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).
The Deaf Studies Digital Journal
An online peer-reviewed journal offered in both American Sign Language and English. This journal provides a multimedia collection of academic articles, commentaries on issues of critical interest...
This website fosters the integration of American Sign Language (ASL) educational research into visual media and literacy. The main objective is to produce teaching and learning materials in ASL...
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.
This site contains a list of Deaf Playwrights, scripts, videos and resources including a list of all deaf plays and deaf theatre companies. The primary focus is on the American Deaf Theatre, but...
The VL2 center publishes research briefs as a resource for educators and parents. These briefs summarize relevant research findings present recommendations that educators and parents can use when...
American Sign Language Library
This web site is designed to provide ASL vocabulary for subject specific terminology found in K-12 classrooms.
Books
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...
Documents
Documents
MDRL Quick Links - APPS for Learning
Here, you'll find quick links to apps categorized by category: Accessibility, advocacy, audiology, classroom tools, games, sign language, sign language dictionaries, and speech.
MDRL Quick Links - Publishers & Products
Here you'll find quick links to websites of publishers of products, curriculum materials and resources related to teaching deaf and hard of hearing students
Apps/Games
Apps/Games
VL2 ASL-English Storybook Apps for the iPad
A new series of VL2 ASL-English storybook apps for the iPad!
This website includes interactive and bilingual ASL/English storybook app designed for visual learners, especially deaf...
This website provides a list of the top 9 writing apps for the iPad to promote children’s literacy skills.
Videos
Videos
“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...
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...
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