Language and Culture of Deaf Community

• About ASL
• ASL as a foreign language
• General information about ASL
• NTID Performing Arts Center, Rochester, NY
• Recognition of ASL as a language
• Northeast Deaf Rec., Inc.
  

Careers in Deaf Community

• Deaf Education
  - List of Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Programs
  - Rochester School for the Deaf
  - Services for students who are deaf and hard of hearing
  
  
• Teaching of ASL and Deaf Studies
  - California State University at Northridge
  - Gallaudet University
  - Teachers College, Columbia University
  - University of Rochester
  - Northeastern University
  

• ASL/English Interpreting
  
  - Academic programs
• Gallaudet University
• Northeastern University
• NTID at RIT
  
- Professional agencies
• Interpretek (Agency in the Rochester area)
• Sign Language Connection
  (Agency in the Rochester area)
  
  
• Social Work
  • Regional Center for Independent
    Living programs, Rochester, NY
    

Organizations and Associations

• American Sign Language Teachers Association
• Genesee Valley Region Registry
  of Interpreters for the Deaf
• National Association of the Deaf
• Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
• Communication Service for the Deaf, Inc.
• Rochester Deaf Sports Organization
  

Newspapers and Magazines

• Deaf Rochester
• List of Deaf-oriented magazines and newsletters

Student Resources

• ASL alphabet
• ASL, SEE, and Signed English
• Animated ASL Dictionary
• Improving signing skills
• Fingerspelling exercises
• Wizard FingerSpeller and Translator
• American School for the Deaf
• Text and wireless pagers
• Videophones
• Information on closed captioning
• Deaflympics
• National Theater of the Deaf
• Deaf Wellness Center
• National Center for Deaf Health Research
• D/deaf doctors in Rochester area

Miscellaneous

• Deaf Kids
• Deaf Resource Library
• DeafChat
• Ethnologue – Sign Languages of the World
• HandSpeak: Visual Languages
• Sign Language Greeting Cards
• Sign Languages of the World
• Films involving Deaf
• Insurance agency for the D/deaf and HOH
• Deaf TV
• Deaf Understanding
• Websourd (in French and French Sign Language)
• Visual-gestural communication