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The Lifeprint Library at ASL University
► Abbe Charles Michel de L'Epee
► ABC Stories: (Available to do for a research paper)
► ABCOS15
► Abuse: Deaf Abuse
► Accommodations for the Deaf | 2 |
► Accreditation
► ACTFL Guidelines
► Adolescent Development
► African Sign Language
► Age and learning ASL
► Ambidextrous signing?
● Americans with Disabilities Act
► American Society for Deaf Children
► Animals and Sign Language
● Arthritis and ASL
► Artists, Deaf
● ASL [1] (a brief definition)
► ASL
● Assimilation
● Assistive Technology: Communication Devices for the Deaf
► Attention Getting Techniques 1 | 2
► Audism 1 | 2 (Note: Audism is different from Autism. They are two different topics.)
► Autism | 2
► Avercamp, Hendrick
► Baby Signing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
► Basketball and the deaf | 1 | 2 |
● Baseball and ASL | 2 |
● Bibliography
● Big River
► Bedouins
► Bellydance and the Deaf Community
► Bilingual Education | 1 | 2 |
► Body Language and ASL
● Book Recommendation: A Study of American Deaf Folklore
● Book Recommendation: Deaf in America
● Book Recommendation: A Brief History of ASL
► Book Recommendation: Fingerspelling
► Book Recommendation: Personal Pronouns
► Book Recommendation: Initialization
► Book Recommendation: Terminology study guide
► Book Recommendation: The Purpose of Signed English
► Book Recommendation: "Janessa's Journey Through Her Mother's Eyes"
► Book Preview: Specialized Signs
● Book Spotlight: What is ASL?
► Bragg, Bernard
► Brain: "The Deaf Brain" (Music)
► Bridgman, Laura (Deaf-Blind)
► Business: "Sign Language and Business"
● Captioning (close captioning)
● Careers in ASL
► Careers in ASL (2)
► Careers in ASL (3)
● Certification to teach ASL?
► Children: Benefits of Learning ASL
● Children: Linguistic Development of Children who use ASL
► Children of Deaf Adults | 1 | 2 | 3 |
► Children: So, your baby is going to be born deaf...
► Chimpanzees and ASL
● Chinese Sign Language
► Church and the Deaf | notes | 2 |
● Classifiers
► Clerc, Laurent 1 |● 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
● Closed Captioning
● Club: "ASL Club" guidance
● Cochlear Implants (1)
● Cochlear Implants (2)
● CODA: See: Children of Deaf Adults
● Codeswitching
● Cognition
Colors
● Communicating with Deaf Students
● Comparatives and Superlatives
● Contact-Signing
► Compounds
► Contrastive Structure
► Countries: Indigenous Signs
● CSET: ASL
● Credit
► Criminal Justice System
Cub Scout Oath
● Cued Speech (1)
● Cued Speech (2)
● Culture, Deaf (...) 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|
● Culture, Deaf: Study Guide
Curriculum Development
► Cycling
► Dance: 1 (sign dance) | 2 |
► Day Program for the Deaf: Student Report:
► Deafblind: The Tadoma Method
● Deaf Children: Linguistic and Social Development
● Deaf Culture (...)
● Deaf Culture (Quiz)
● Deaf Culture: Study Guide
Deaf Way: The International Deaf Way Conference and Festival [This topic available for use as a research paper]
● Deaf Way II
► Deaflympics | 02 | 03
● Deaf President Now | 2
● Defining "Deaf" What does "Deaf" mean?
► Degrees: "Should I pursue an advanced degree?"
► Dentistry and the Deaf
► Directionality (verb agreement)
► Disability: "Deafness as a Disability"
● Discourse / Conversation negotiation techniques
► Distinctions project
► Driving and the Deaf | Drivers Licenses | Driving Schools and the Deaf
Documentation Form
► Dogs: "Hearing Dogs" | Canine Sign Language | Deaf Dogs
► Drug Awareness and Treatment Services for the Deaf in a Hearing World (also see "Substance Abuse")
► Dyslexia and Fingerspelling
► Education, Deaf: 1 | 2
► Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA)
► Employment, Deaf 1 | 2 | 3 |
► Entrepreneurship, Deaf
► Equivalency: Classroom Contact Hours
► Ethnicity
► Evaluation
► Evolution of a sign
► Evolution of a language: ASL
► Eye Gaze (also see Lesson 5)
Extended Transcript Systems
► Facial Expressions
► Fernandes, Jane K.
► Finding and Meeting Deaf People
► Find an ASL Class
► Fingerspelling: Receptive Practice
► Fingerspelling
► Fingerspelling 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
► Fingerspelling Phobia
► Fingerspelling in the Classroom
►Font-"Fingerspelling Font"
► Football | 02 | Football Huddle
► Foreign Language Credit
► Foster Care
► Frequently Asked Questions (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
► Frog: Race
► Gallaudet, Edward Miner
► Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
► Gallaudet-TrueType-"Fingerspelling Font"
► Gallaudet University
► Gaming: "Deaf Gamers"
► Geography
► Gestuno
► GLAD
► Gloss
► Glossary
► Golf | 2 |
► Gorillas | 2
► Grammar of ASL
► Grammar 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
► Hadden, Luther, "Dummy Taylor" baseball player
► Handshapes
► Hard of Hearing (A Tale of Two Trucks)
► Healthcare and the Deaf | 2 | 3 |
► Hearing Ear Dogs
► Hearing Loss: Types of
► Heinicke, Samuel 1 | 2
► Higher Education and Deaf Students
► Hispanic / Latino Deaf Children in the United States
► History of ASL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
► History Test
► Hockey 1 | 2 |
► Holocaust, Deaf People in the
► Homeschoolling
► Homework Requests
► How do Deaf Children Learn to Read? (See: Literacy)
► Humor
► I have a question 1 | 2
► Iconicity
► Idiom 1 | 2
► ILY (I love you)
► Indexing
► Indian Sign Language
► Inflection
► Immersion Program
► Initialized Signs 1 | 2
► Instinct: Deaf Instinct for Protologism and Neologism Discrimination
► Interesting signs: "finish touch"
► Interpreting in California
► Interpreting | 2 | 3 |
► Interpreting: "Educational Interpreting"
► Interpreting: Medical
► Interpreting in Texas
► Interpreting: The Necessity For Sign Language Interpreters
► Interpreting: Sample Legislation
► Interpreting: What are the negatives?
► Interpreter fees
► Interpreter Pay
► Interviews Index
► Interview: General interview for practicing ASL
► Interview Dr. Michael Bienenstock
► Interview: Bridgit Bonheyo
► Interview: Brent Ehrig
► Interview: Terol Galien
► Interview: Connie Rubery
► Interview: Belinda Vicars
► Interview: Bill Vicars | 2 | 3 | 4 |
► Job Advice: How to get a job teaching ASL
► Jokes
► Judaism
► Karaoke for the Deaf
► Keller, Helen | 2 |
► Language Deprivation
► Language Acquisition | 2 |
► Language: Early Acquisition | 2 |
► Language Extinction | 2
► Language Of the Deaf Community
► Late Deafened Adult 1 | 2 | Reflections
► Law Enforcement and the Deaf
► Learning ASL: Why study ASL?
► Learning ASL: Getting practice
► Learning ASL: Hints
● Learning Disabilities
► Left-handed signers | 2
► Left-handed numbering
► Lexicalized Fingerspelling
► Linguistic Intuition
► Linguistics of ASL | 2 | 3 | (parameter grouping)
► Lipreading
► Literacy and the Deaf | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
► Literacy: ASL Literacy
► Little Deaf Riding Hood
► Loan Signs (Lexical Borrowing)
► Locatives
► LOVE (Linguistics of Visual English)
► Low, Juliette (Girl Scouts)
► "Made Up Signs"
► Mainstreaming |
► Malkowski, Gary
► Martha's Vineyard
►Martial Arts and the Deaf
► Manually Coded English
► Martial Arts and the Deaf
► Matlin, Marlee 1 | 2 | 3 |
► Media and the Deaf
► Medical Interpreting
► Meeting Deaf People
► Mental Illness and the Deaf ● Mental Illness and the Deaf
► Metathesis
► Methodical Sign Language
► Mexican Sign Language | 02 |
► Military Service and the Deaf
► Miller, Marven: The Town of Laurent (Deaf Town)
► Minimal Pairs
● Ministry: "Deaf Ministry"
► Miss Deaf America Pageant | 2 | 3 | Pageants | Pageants 2 |
► Morphemes: Form vs. Process
► Morris, Osei
► Movies 01 | 02 |
► Mouthing in ASL 1 | 2
► Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr.
► Mute
► Museum of Deaf History
► ñ
► NAD: National Association of the Deaf
► Name Signs 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
► National Technical Institute for the Deaf
► National Theater of the Deaf 1 | 2 | 3
► Navigating a Deaf Environment
► Negation
► Neurolinguistics of ASL
► Nonlinguistic Communication (Bill Vicars)
► Non-Manual Markers
► Nonverbal -Will ASL use harm speech development?
► Noun-verb pairs [Also see: Lesson 5]
► Numbers
► Numbers: discussion
► One handed signing | 2
► Onomatopoeic Signs
► Oralism
► Pageants | 2 | 3
● Parents, "Deaf Parents"
► Peace Officer Training and the Deaf
► Person Affix [agency or "agent affix]
► Phonemes
► Pidgin
► Pledge of Allegiance
► Pluralizing
► Poetry
► Poker and the Deaf
► Pond: The Deaf Community as a Pond Analogy
► Possession
► Pride, Deaf: and Hearing attempts at disabling the Deaf
► Pronoun Placement
► Protest at Gallaudet University (2006)
► PSE
► Psychology of "Deaf People"
► Ranking
► Reflections of an ASL student
► Reflections of a late deafened adult
Regional Dialects in ASL [This topic available for use as a research paper]
► Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - (Katie Caillavet)
Religious Signing and Deaf Ministries
► Relay Services
► Repeated movement of signs (repetition)
► Request a sign
Research Papers
► Residential Schools for the Deaf
► Right or Left Hand
● Rochester Method (brief definition)
● Rochester Method (full article)
► Role Shift
► SCUBA Diving and ASL
► SEE (see "Signed English")
► Semantic Range
► Script 01
► Signed English | SEE | 2 |
► Sign Language Diversity 1 | 2 | 3
► Signing Notes
► Signing with something in your hand
► Signwriting 1 | 2 |
► Smith, Deaf (Erastus) 1 | 2
► Snow Skiing
► Snowboarding | Deaflympics Snowboarding
► Sociolinguistic Variation of ASL
► Skorohodova, Olga (Russia's own "Hellen Keller")
► Soccer
► Sports and the Deaf | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
► Stern, Shoshanna (Deaf Actress)
► Storytelling
► Substance Abuse | 2 |
► Suicide Prevention
► Swimming and Deaf People
► Synesthesia, auditory-kinesthetic
► Syntax
► Tale of Two Trucks
► Tattooing in the Deaf Community
► Teacher: How to become a teacher of the Deaf
► Technical Signs
► Technology
► Telecommunications for the Deaf | 2 |
► Telephone Relay Service
► Temporal Adverbs
► Tennis
► Tense
► Terminology | 3 |
● TEST Activity: First 100 Signs Quiz
► Theatre | 2 | 3 | 4 |
► Today
► Titles 1 | 2
► Tobacco and the Deaf Community
► Trilingualism [print version] [PDF version]
► Tutors and tutoring
● TTY
► Video Relay
► Verb agreement / inflection
► Vocational Rehabilitation
► Voicing in ASL class?
► Wanted List: List of signs scheduled for development
► Writers, Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Workshops-(So, you want a workshop?)
World Federation of the Deaf (available for use as a student research paper)
World Games for the Deaf: Now called "Deaflympics"
► Wrestling, deaf
► Yoga
► Zambia
Topics available for students to use as research papers.
Some of these have already been done but could be expanded even more:ASL as a World Language (The worldwide spread of ASL) [This topic available for use as a research paper]
National Center for Law and the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper]
American Society for Deaf Children [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Artistic Signing [This topic available for use as a research paper]
ASL Phrase book [available for book review]
Countries, States, and Cities [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Deaf Smith [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Drugs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Dual Party Relay (DPR) [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Eye Gaze [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Facial Expression and Non-Manual Cues [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Formal vs. Informal Signing [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Furniture Vocabulary [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Gender and ASL [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Historical Change and ASL [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Iconicity of Signs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Idioms [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Incorporation of Intensity [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Incorporation of Time [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Indexing on the Non-Dominant Hand [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Inflections: Regularity and Duration [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Interpreters in the Educational Setting [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Juncture Markers [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Kinds of Sentences [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Law and the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper] ***
Laurent Clerc [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Loan Signs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Miss Deaf America Pageant [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Name Signs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
National Captioning Institute [This topic available for use as a research paper]
National Fraternal Society of the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper]
National Technical Institute for the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper]
National Theater for the Deaf [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Non-Manual Cues in Expressing Time [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Non-manual Cues [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Noun-Verb Pairs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
On The Other Hand [available for a book review]
Ordinal Numbers [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Passive Voice in ASL [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Person Marker [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Role Taking [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Samuel Heinicke [This topic available for use as a research paper]
SimCom [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Speechreading: "Why it isn't enough" [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Numbering in ASL [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Temporal Adverbs [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Time Line [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Total Communication [This topic available for use as a research paper]
Visual Readiness Training [This topic available for use as a research paper]
ASL Students attending brick and mortar universities are welcome to submit their papers to ASLU for possible publication. All submissions become co-owned by ASLU. That means you are still free to use it and do what you want with it but give ASLU permission to publish it and use it freely in future works.