Reading to Deaf Children
Reading to Deaf Children

Author: David R. Schleper

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780880952125

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Fifteen principles outlined as a guide for parents and teachers who want to share the pleasure of reading with deaf children.

The Auslan Dictionary
The Auslan Dictionary

Author: Lee Bilby

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781921391811

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This dictionary remains the only one to include descriptions of how to perform the sign, and the vital context notes that allow the user to understand when a sign should, or should not be used.

Signing Fun
Signing Fun

Author: Penny Warner

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563682926

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For ages 11 and up, this fun book presents 441 signs on a variety of topics, practice sentences, dozens of entertaining games, and tips on signing and fingerspelling.

Resurrection Bay
Resurrection Bay

Author: Emma Viskic

Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1782273913

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ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Finalist for the CWA (Crime Writers’ Association) Gold Dagger Finalist for John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Awards From Australia’s most exciting new crime-writing talent comes an “outstanding . . . gripping and violent” thriller starring a deaf PI who is “original and appealing” (The Guardian) Caleb Zelic can’t hear you, but he sees everything. And he never forgets a face. Caleb Zelic's childhood friend has been brutally murdered—fingers broken, throat slit—at his home in Melbourne. Tortured by guilt, Caleb vows to track down the killer. But he's profoundly deaf; missed words and misread lips can lead to confusion, and trouble. Fortunately, Caleb knows how to read people; a sideways glance, an unconvincing smile, speak volumes. When his friend Frankie, a former cop, offers to help, they soon discover the killer is on their tail. Sensing that his ex-wife may also be in danger, Caleb insists they return to their hometown of Resurrection Bay. But here he learns that everyone—including his murdered friend—is hiding something. And the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets . . .

The Words in My Hands
The Words in My Hands

Author: Asphyxia

Publisher: Annick Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1773215302

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Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be “normal,” to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind—like survival. Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate for her Deafness in a world made for those who can hear. But when she meets Marley, a new world opens up—one where Deafness is something to celebrate, and where resilience means taking action, building a com-munity, and believing in something better. Published to rave reviews as Future Girl in Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sept. 2020), this empowering, unforgettable story is told through a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage, and drawings. Set in an ominously prescient near future, The Words in My Hands is very much a novel for our turbulent times.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Author: Rajend Mesthrie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 1139500937

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The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Signs for Developing Reading
Signs for Developing Reading

Author: Emil Holmer

Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9176857670

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Reading development is supported by strong language skills, not least in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. The work in the present thesis investigates reading development in DHH children who use sign language, attend Regional Special Needs Schools (RSNS) in Sweden and are learning to read. The primary aim of the present work was to investigate whether the reading skills of these children can be improved via computerized sign language based literacy training. Another aim was to investigate concurrent and longitudinal associations between skills in reading, sign language, and cognition in this population. The results suggest that sign language based literacy training may support development of word reading. In addition, awareness and manipulation of the sub-lexical structure of sign language seem to assist word reading, and imitation of familiar signs (i.e., vocabulary) may be associated with developing reading comprehension. The associations revealed between sign language skills and reading development support the notion that sign language skills provide a foundation for emerging reading skills in DHH signing children. In addition, the results also suggest that working memory and Theory of Mind (ToM) are related to reading comprehension in this population. Furthermore, the results indicate that sign language experience enhances the establishment of representations of manual gestures, and that progression in ToM seems to be typical, although delayed, in RSNS pupils. Working memory has a central role in integrating environmental stimuli and language-mediated representations, and thereby provides a platform for cross-modal language processing and multimodal language development.