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Communication Source
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Offers full-text content pertaining to communication studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
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They are typically written for a larger audience than journal articles.
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Important Note: In most cases you'll only use a chapter or two for your research so don't be scared off by the length of a book.

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Professional Resources:

American Sign Language Teachers Association
ASLTA is a national-level professional organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching of ASL and Deaf Studies at all levels of instruction.
Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education (CCIE)
CCIE was founded to promote professionalism in the field of sign language interpreter education through the process of accreditation.

Information and Resources on Deafness:

Described and Captioned Media Program
The DCMP's mission is to provide all persons who are deaf or hard of hearing awareness of and equal access to communication and learning through the use of captioned educational media and supportive collateral materials. The DCMP also acts as a captioning information and training center.
National Deaf Education Center
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University provides information, training, and technical assistance for parents and professionals to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing children.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
One of the institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes
NDC is a technical assistance and dissemination center funded by the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). NDC provides evidence-based strategies to deaf individuals, family members, and professionals at the local, state, and national levels with the goal of closing education and employment gaps for deaf individuals.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies by Franz Pochhacker (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies is the authoritative reference for anyone with an academic or professional interest in interpreting. With all entries alphabetically arranged, extensively cross-referenced and including suggestions for further reading, this text combines clarity with scholarly accuracy and depth, defining and discussing key terms in context to ensure maximum understanding and ease of use.
The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia by Genie Gertz (Editor); Patrick Boudreault (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016

This new Encyclopedia shifts focus away from the medical model that has viewed deaf individuals as needing to be remedied in order to correct so-called hearing and speaking deficiencies for the sole purpose of assimilation into mainstream society. The members of deaf communities are part of a distinct cultural and linguistic group with a unique, vibrant community and way of being.
The Joy of Signing Third Edition by Lottie L. Riekehof
Publication Date: 2014

The Joy of Signing is one of the most comprehensive guides available for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern.
Integrated and Open Interpreter Education: The Open Educational Resource Reader and Workbook for Interpreters by Elisa M. Maroney; Amanda R. Smith; Sarah Hewlett; Erin Trine; and Vicki Darden
Publication Date: 2019

This Open Educational Resource (OER) on interpreting offers authors and readers free and open access to current, relevant, easy-to-access, and free materials. The editors have created a space where emerging scholars in the field of signed language interpreting make contributions with the ability to revise as the interpreting studies discipline and the scholars,themselves, develop and change.

HandSpeak
HandSpeak is a content site on sign language, consisting of American Sign Language (ASL) online dictionary, grammar tutorials, fingerspelling, literary arts (storytelling and poetry), ASL writing, and other features.
Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
The dictionary has both animated and text definitions. The sign images are displayed from the perspective of the viewer, not the signer.
Signing Savvy
A sign language dictionary containing several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada.

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