American Sign Language Resources




		American Sign Language Finger Spelling Online Dictionaries Research Miscellaneous Finger spelling Sign The Alphabet Online Game http://www.funbrain.com/signs/index.html Simple little game to practice finger spelling. American Sign Langauge SLanT – Sign Language Teacher http://www.aslslant.com/ Does finger spelling drill/practice. GG Wiz’s FingerSpeller http://www.ggwiz.com/asl/ Practice your fingerspelling reception skills. Where.com ASL http://www.where.com/scott.net/asl/ Finger spelling guide online Online Dictionaries Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html Medical American Sign Language Phrasebook http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/ecarpenter/ASLphrasebook.htm Information on deafness/signing for medical profession. Also links to online sign dictionaries and has some common phrases for in hospitals. Handspeak www.handspeak.com Exploration of imagery language and visual communication, cultures and arts. Has an online sign dictionary. Animated Dictionary of Religious Signs http://www.deafmissions.com/dic/ASLdm.html ASL Browser http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/ Michigan State Universities online sign language Dictionary. They also sell a CD with this dictionary for $19.99 (containing 2500 digital video signs representing 4500 English words). K8AIT Sign Language Dictionary http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Signing/index.html Uses an animated character to show the signs Animated ASL Dictionary http://www.bconnex.net/%7Erandys/index1.html Small selection of signs available online. Online dictionary for French Sign Language http://signserver.univ-lyon2.fr/ Research ASL Linguistic Research Project at Boston University http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/ The ASLLRP includes investigation of the syntactic structure of ASL and development of multimedia tools to facilitate access to and analysis of primary data for sign language research. The National Science Foundation currently funds each of these projects. Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico) http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox/Home.html Tutorials LifePrint ASL University http://www.lifeprint.com/ Offers some free training and some for a price, all provided online. They also have some Deaf Jokes online that are pretty good. ASL On The Web http://www.angelfire.com/ia/andycat/asl.html Nice site, teaches a little about the grammatical structure of ASL. SIGNhear http://library.thinkquest.org/10202/window.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0713 Teaches ASL. Miscellaneous American Sign Language Fonts http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/asl.html Download fonts for finger spelling. ASL Access http://www.aslaccess.org/ ASL Access is a fully volunteer, non-profit organization with a mission for placement of American Sign Language video resources in PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Public libraries wishing to purchase the ASL Access Video Collection, or donors who wish to purchase and give this set to their local public library may contact ASL Access. On the web site, visitors will also find ASL video reviews and contact information for ASL vendors. ASL Info http://www.aslinfo.com/ Lots of good information. ASL Webology http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/gril/ASL.htm A list of links that focus on ASL Baby Fingers http://www.mybabyfingers.com/ Baby Fingers was created to help build a stronger communication bond between parent and baby through the use of sign language and music. Hands of Expression http://www.hands-of-expression.com/ Teaching hearing children sign language is proven to allow children to communicate at an earlier age. This local agency teachers parents of hearing children sign language to help develop language skills in infants. Northern Virginia Sign Language Club http://www.nvslc.com/ This sit is dedicated to promoting greater understanding between the Hearing and Deaf communities. Sign To Me http://www.sign2me.com/ Information on the programs available for teaching sign language to hearing babies for earlier communication. States who accept ASL as a foreign Language, and more communication and sign language resources http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/index.html#communication Info to Go, from the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center's office of Publications and Information Dissemination, is a centralized source of accurate, up-to-date, and objective information on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss in the age group of 0-21. It is organized by category, including the above, “communication and sign language.”
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