Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this...

Now, the bestselling resource "The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary" has been completely revised with more than 320 new signs and a new DVD. It organizes more than 1,900 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes and includes detailed descriptions o...

People who first encounter sign language often ask if all deaf people sign the same language and are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. One variation, B...

Help your child to learn their first words in French with this beautifully presented, interactive learning resource. Packed with more than 300 key words, this book makes the perfect companion, whether your child is learning the language at home, at s...

Help your child to learn their first words in Spanish with this beautifully presented, interactive learning resource. Packed with more than 300 key words, this book makes the perfect companion, whether your child is learning the language at home, at...

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...

Successful interpretation can feel seamless, an intuitive and efficient translation of meaning from one signed or spoken language to another. Yet the process of interpretation is actually quite complex and relies upon myriad components ranging from p...

While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framewor...

This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780-1970, the essays in this collec...