Books published by Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Promoting Positive Transition Outcomes is the most comprehensive discussion of transition planning and results for DHH students now available. Luft provides an overview of the challenges to DHH students and their academic and vocational potential. She explores the importance of forming an identity and building foundational social and problem-solving skills. She examines the services that are currently available in high schools and offers recommendations for strengthening transition team planning by reaching out to external experts. The volume concludes with suggestions for creating a framework to address the challenges of transition planning and offers guidance on building effective plans.

This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. Noted scholar Jemina Napier explores the linguistic coping strategies of interpreters by drawing on her own study of the interpretation of a university lecture from English into Australian Sign Language (Auslan). A new preface by the author provides perspective on the importance of the work and how it fits within the scholarship of interpretation studies.

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions.

Lori A. Whynot's examination of International Sign has crucial implications for expository IS usage, training, and interpreting.

This book examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. The essays in this collection explore deaf peoples' claims to autonomy in their personal, religious, social, and organizational lives, and reveal how these debates overlapped with social trends and spilled out into particular physical and social spaces such as clubs, churches, and within families. The contributors demonstrate that as deaf people pushed for their rights as citizens, they met with resistance from hearing people, and the results of their efforts were decidedly mixed.

A novel, that recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the turn of the twentieth century.

An initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education by examining and assessing classroom interaction. This book presents research by professors who adopted SoTL methodology to study their classrooms at Gallaudet University, an institution employing American Sign Language and written English.

Includes the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people, the assimilation of deaf children to surrounding communities, the role that society's view of deaf people plays in affecting how deaf people view themselves, the impact of bilingualism in deaf communities, and transliteration.

This first-of-its-kind volume contains ten papers from the 2013 International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research that document current research on critical areas in interpretation and translation studies. The contributors cover topics ranging from the need for Deaf perspectives in interpretation research to discourse strategies and techniques that are unique to video relay call settings, and more.

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the linguistically and geographically diverse regions of the world. As in the rest of the world, deaf people live throughout sub-Saharan communities. This is a research on sub-Saharan signed languages and deaf community, organizing has created the opportunity to gather together and the perspectives presented herein.

Willy Conley's novel captures the cultural heart of the Deaf world.

Reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.

The 8th Deaf History International Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities hailing from 12 different countries around the world who related their own autobiographies as well as the biographies of historical Deaf individuals. This book brings together the best of these stories.

Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. The author searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the factors that encourage resilience in African American deaf and hard of hearing students.

Through rigorous study of historical texts, field research in communities throughout France and the US, and in-depth analysis of the cultural groups responsible for the lexicon, the authors present a detailed account of the origins of over 500 ASL signs, including regional variations. It is organized alphabetically by equivalent English glosses.

A collection that consists of ten chapters contributed by a broad array of international scholars addressing diverse topics while using a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, questionnaires, observation, and diary accounts. It is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and students, as well as all healthcare professionals.

A collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars who depict the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. It presents the history of Deaf translators and interpreters and details the development of testing and accreditation to raise their professional profiles.

A study that investigates the infancy of American Sign Language (ASL). It highlights the major events in ASL history, analyzes the metalinguistic assumptions of these early accounts and also examine in depth a key set of films made by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) between 1910 and 1920.

Kyler Daniels was born deaf in 1988. Unlike other deaf children, Kyler's parents jumped into action to find the best way to educate their daughter. They sought out every possible resource to aid their daughter. This book tells Kyler's story that can serve as a model for parents of other deaf children and the professionals who work with them.