Internet Resources on Deafness and Sign Language Interpreting

General Resources

• Handspeak: An online, video dictionary of ASL
• Hearing Disorders and Deafness: from Medline
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Organizations and Agencies

• The Caption Center at WGBH: Information on closed captioning of television programs
• Denver Center on Deafness: Programs and general information on sign language, interpreting, and closed captioning

E-mail listservs

• TERPS-L: A discussion list for interpreters whose working languages include a signed language. To join, send a message with a blank subject line to: LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBREC.ON.CA
  In the body, write: subscribe terps-l firstname lastname
• SLLING-L: List about sign language linguistics To join, send a message with a blank subject line to: LISTSERV@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU
  In the body, write: subscribe slling-l firstname lastname
• DEAFBLIND: Discussion of deaf/blind issues To join, send a message with a blank subject line to: LISTSERV@UKCC.UKY.EDU
  In the body, write: subscribe deafblind firstname lastname

More Extensive Lists of Resources

• Deaf Resource Library: One of the most inclusive listings of resources on deafness both in America and Japan by Karen Nakamura (Yale Univ.)
• Resources on Deafness: Yahoo directory listing