The purpose of this initiative is to establish formal standards and benchmarks for ASL learning in grades K through 12. The development of these standards are central to helping deaf and hard of...
How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference: Research and Trends
Dr. Beth Benedict presents about the importance of early intervention.
"Can early intervention really make a difference? Join Dr. Beth Benedict for a webinar on what research is telling us...
This website documents a young deaf woman and her hearing family's experiences learning American Sign Language.
Parent to Parent: Raising Deaf Kids
This website is made for parents by parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This website has information such as books lists, information on hearing loss by age group, and resources...
Families' Role in Early Intervention
A resource developed by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University was created to assist families with early literacy intervention.
“Why Sign? A Life Expedition” takes us on a mother’s journey in embracing her Deaf child’s identity and language.
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Housed at Gallaudet University, the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center runs two schools and focuses on improving the quality of education. The Clerc Center is one of VL2's key...
A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families and their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as professionals who serve them.
American Society for Deaf Children
A non-profit advocacy organization for parents of deaf children, run by parents of deaf children.
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...
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. You...
Books for Parents of Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This list of books for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing was composed by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University.
ASL Songs and Rhymes DVD
-Professionally Developed
-20 popular children songs translated into ASL
-3 ASL Phonology Poems
-All songs have captioning
-No voice -over...
Gallaudet University and the National Association of the Deaf Bust ASL Myths
"Two of the nation's largest ASL supporters team up to prove a number of ASL myths wrong. Doctors routinely tell their patients "facts" about Deafness that have since been proven false or are...
Dr. Sanjay Gulati of the Cambridge Health Alliance presents a lecture about the serious affects of Language Deprivation Syndrome.
Flourishing with Family Communication
Tom Holcomb presents about the importance of family support for deaf and hard of hearing children.
One Deaf Child: Presentation by Rachel Coleman
"In this presentation for Deaf Awareness Week, Signing Time's Rachel Coleman talks about her compelling journey that began when she learned that her daughter, Leah, was deaf."
You can also...
Hearing parents (and brother) talk about learning to use American Sign Language with their deaf daughter.
Common Errors by Young Children Acquiring a Sign Language
Published on Apr 10, 2014
Researched, signed and produced by Adam Stone.
Early Intervention: the Missing Link
Video that presents research about information hearing parents may be missing upon identification of hearing loss in their infant/child.
Video: Alone in a Hearing World
CSS Movies presents "Alone in a Hearing World". Alone in a Hearing World shows true to life scenarios of a young deaf boy growing up in a hearing world.
Video: Hearing Mother Using ASL/English with 2 Deaf Children Who have CIs
A parent of two Deaf children with cochlear implants shares her view about the value of the bilingual approach, including participating in the Shared Reading Project.
Early Identification: Parent Reaction
This video, made by Hands and Voices, a parent support group speaks to parents reactions to early identification of hearing loss.
This video shows a parent reading to their Deaf toddler.
Tutorial: Words and Worlds: The Science of Learning on Visual Language!
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...
Newspaper Article: Deaf Doctor Graduates
A newspaper article about a Deaf woman, Megan Jack, and her accomplishment of graduating from medical school.
Research Article: Reducing the Harms of Zero Tolerance to the use of alternative approaches
This article describes several harms from the surgery of cochlear implants itself, and argues that, ethically speaking, a standard for success should be cochlear implants measured against hearing...