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- Yahoo! Groups: Sign Language - A homeschooling list-serve for families. Courses cover history, alphabet, numbers, and signs used in everyday conversation.
- International Bibliography of Sign Language - Vast sign language directory from the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. Search according to authors, keyword, classification, perisodicals. Links.
- A Linguistic Big Bang - A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine.
- Association of Sign Language Interpreters (ASLI) - A professional association encouraging good practice in Sign Language interpreting, and representing the profession in the UK. Includes information on membership, events, and professional development activities.
- Austin Sign Language School - American Sign Language Classes - Signed English - Austin Sign Language School (ASLS) is a non-profit organization offering quality sign language instruction for students, ages 16 and above, in the Austin, Texas and surrounding areas.
- SignWriting in Nicaragua - Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language.
- Scottish Association for Sign Language Interpreters - Scottish body for training and qualifying British Sign Language interpreters.
- Stockholm University Department of Sign Language - Information on Swedish Sign Language, or Svenskt Teckenspråk. In Swedish and English.
- SignPost BSL - SignPost is a supplier of British Sign Language (BSL) services. This bi-lingual website has free BSL tutorials, signed daily news headlines and TV listings of signed programmes.
- Down Syndrome and Sign Language - Article that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?
Wikipedia Articles
- List of sign languages - Sign language is not universal. Like spoken languages, sign languages emerge naturally in communities and change through time.
- Contact Sign - Contact Sign is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between a Deaf sign language and a spoken language (or the written or manually coded form of the spoken language). Contact languages also arise between different sign languages, although the term pidgin rather than Contact Sign is used to describe such phenomena.
- Sign language media - Sign language media are media based on a media system for sign languages. Interfaces in sign language media are built on the complex grammar structure of sign languages.
- Mayan sign languages - Mayan sign languages are used in Mexico and Guatemala by Maya communities with unusually high numbers of deaf inhabitants. In some instances, both hearing and deaf members of a village may use the sign language.
- Vietnamese sign languages - Sign language varieties in Ho Chi Minh city, Hanoi, and Haiphong are usually considered to be separate languages. However, there are attempts to develop a national standard language, Vietnamese Sign Language.