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Links to Additional Resources

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Parents and families frequently request a variety of information pertaining to local, state, and national resources. While we do not regularly monitor these sites, these are resources we believe may be valuable and informative.

Local Resources | National Resources | Learn ASL | Trilingual Resources

Click for Suggested Materials for Families who have deaf or hard-of-hearing children
or to see what's in our Lending Library

LOCAL RESOURCES

• At Family Focus Resource and Empowerment Center, DEAF Project has a LENDING Library of materials for families. Email us or call 818.677.6854.
• Los Angeles Unified School District- Division of Special Education
• Parent Infant Program
  Deaf/Hard of Hearing Unit and Audiological Services
  Marlton School for the Deaf and CSUN Partnership School
• California School for the Deaf, Riverside
• Greater Los Angeles Association for the Deaf
• Mental Health Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Family Members
• Five Acres- Deaf Services provides in-home counseling, outpatient therapy, parent education and perinatal services in American Sign Language in the areas of child abuse treatment, prevention and child mental health services to families in the greater Los Angeles deaf community
• KODAWest- serving hearing children of deaf adults.

NATIONAL RESOURCES

• Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
• National Association of the Deaf
• American Society for Deaf Children
• Deaf Culture Online
• Captioned Media Program
• Clerc's Children
• Hands and Voices
• CODA International (Children of Deaf Adults)

LEARN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

• Greater Los Angeles Association for the Deaf offer ASL Classes FALL 2010 Schedule
• ASL Inside
• Everyday ASL
• Signing time
• Baby signs
• Sign 2 me
• ASL University
• Signing Savvy
• Babies and Sign Language
• Dawn Sign Press
• Harris Communications
• Signing Fiesta
  

Trilingual Resources (English, Spanish, ASL)

• Trilingual
  Trilingual Tots
• A Basic Course in American Sign Language
  http://www.harriscomm.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2148
  http://www.barrproductions.com/asl.html
  http://www.dawnsign.com/shopping/Detail.cfm?ProductID=161
• Trilingual Video Dictionary
• Time To Sign
• Boca Beth
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7uK0oIhPQ
• Baby Einstein
  Three of the Baby Einstein DVDs teach ASL and all three have the option to put the audio and text in either English, Spanish, or French. Click on "DVDs" then scroll to find these three:
  My First Signs
  Baby's Favorite Places
  Baby Wordsworth
  

Got an iPhone?

Search your iphone apps for the following programs giving you instant ASL access

• isign animated ASL dictionary
• isign lite introduction to ASL
  
• Signing Time lite (free)
  
• Baby Sign ASL
  
• ASL fingerspelling freeware
  
• ASL video: numbers and letters
  
• ASL alphabet trainer
  
• Sign Smith ASL essential
  
• iphone language software: Sign Smith ASL lite
  
• ASL Tutor

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you know of a resource that might be helpful for families with Deaf or Hard of Hearing students that is not identified on this page, please let us know.