Directory of Sign Languages Resources

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• Signed languages used in deaf communities.
• Sign systems used in contact between deaf and hearing people.
• Signing to hearing children as a language tool.
• The gestural language used between Native American tribes.

Subcategories

• American Sign Language
• Auslan
• Austrian Sign Language
• British Sign Language
• Danish Sign Language
• Dictionaries
• Directories
• French Sign Language
• German Sign Language
• History
• Interpreting
• Irish Sign Language
• Italian Sign Language
• Japanese Sign Language
• Malaysian Sign Language
• Manually Coded English
• Mexican Sign Language
• Native American Sign Systems
• Nicaraguan Sign Language
• Norwegian Sign Language
• Russian Sign Language
• Sign Language of Québec
• Sign Language of Singapore
• Sign Language of The Netherlands
• Signing with Babies
• Spanish Sign Language
• Swedish Sign Language

Resources in This Category

• A Nice Gesture

  http://jeroenarendsen.nl/
  Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.

• ACERO

  http://miajava.tripod.com/
  Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.

• Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary

  http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html
  Two-volume set available for purchase.

• Myths About Sign Language

  http://www.top.net.nz/~hugh/Vanity/Personal/LanguageMyths.html
  Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.

• Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language

  http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/BIDCone.html
  Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.

• New Zealand Sign Online

  http://www.signplanet.net/
  Searchable database of images and activities for Auslan, British, American, and New Zealand Sign Languages. Browse by category or learning level, download pre-made worksheets, and play online games.

• Sign Language Assessment

  http://www.signlang-assessment.info/
  Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.

• Sign Language Studies

  http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLS.html
  A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000.

• Sign Writing

  http://www.signwriting.org/
  Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.

• SignGenius

  http://www.signgenius.com/
  Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language.

• The Greek Manual Alphabet Page

  http://www.deafblind.com/greecema.html
  Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.

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