Books

Interpreting For Deaf People
A Report of a Workshop on Interpreting Governor Baxter State School for the Deaf
Portland, Maine, July 7-27, 1965
Stephen P Quigley, Editor and Chairman
Joseph P. Youngs, Co-Chairman
US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Encounters with Reality 1,001 Interpreter Scenarios 2nd Edition
Encounters with Reality: 2nd Edition, contains 1,001 real-life scenarios that are sad, funny, perplexing and sometimes downright scary. It builds on the first edition by including responses and perspectives from experienced interpreters, deaf consumers, interpreter ...

Signing Naturally Student Workbook Units 1-6
Signing Naturally Student Workbook, Units 1-6 is the perfect introduction to American Sign Language (ASL). The workbook and DVDs supplement and reinforce classroom instruction and provide an effective way to review, practice, and retain what you've learned.
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Signing Naturally Student Workbook Units 7-12
An excellent reference and resource book, Units 7-12 is a continuation of Signing Naturally Units 1-6 where students can effectively review, practice, and retain what they have learned in their American Sign Language (ASL) classes.
Cheri Smith, Ella Mae Lentz...

ABC 1-2-3 Fingerspelling and Numbers in ASL Student Workbook
ABC 1-2-3 Student Workbook provides students with focused instruction on fingerspelling as it is used within ASL discourse so they will become more fluent in their fingerspelling receptive and expressive skills. The AVC 1-2-3 practice DVD, is designed to help studen...

Introduction To American Deaf Culture
Introduction to American Deaf Culture is the only comprehensive textbook that provides a broad, yet in-depth exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the concept of cul...

Language Deprivation and Deaf Mental Health
Language Deprivation and Deaf Mental Health explores the impact of the language deprivation that some deaf individuals experience by not being provided fully accessible language exposure during childhood. Leading experts in Deaf mental health care discuss the implic...

Made To Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Based on accounts of an interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children, this book describes the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with professionals, and the influence of neuroscience. ...

Walk In My Shoes
Walk In My Shoes is the collaborative effort of 28 people affected by Usher syndrome, an incurable, genetically transmitted disease causing combined deafness and blindness. These authors write with both humor an compassion, sharing their journeys in their new "norma...

Deaf Eyes On Interpreting
As the ASL-English interpreting field has become professionalized, there is a growing disconnect between interpreters and the Deaf consumers they serve. Whereas interpreting used to be a community-based practice, the field is growing into a research-based profession...