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Think of us as an American Sign Language (ASL) resource and publishing center.  We are a team of people interested in equalizing the playing field among languages, especially ASL.  One way to do that is to provide authors a way to release ASL videobooks online.  

What's a videobook?  Think of the term, "textbook".  Textbooks are usually an academic, comprehensive study of a particular subject.  In this case, we are publishing videobooks, in other words, ASL versions of academic, comprehensive study of a particular subject!   

We are honored and proud to be the first in the world to publish an academic ASL videobook, specifically, the ASL Companion Volume of Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology:  Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods  textbook.  This ASL videobook includes two forewords, a prologue, fourteen chapters, with a total of seventeen different signers.  The publisher, chapter authors, and the co-editors of the very first academic videobook in ASL are Deaf.  

Interested in publishing your ASL videobook with us? Contact us!

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Easier - Sign language is a method of communication which uses hand movements and other gestures.

Harder - Sign languages are rich, complex languages capable of expressing the same scope of thoughts, feelings, intentions and complexities as spoken languages. Today, there are more than 100 sign languages in the world. The language of the majority of North American culturally Deaf people is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL uses signs composed of specific movements and shapes of the hand and arms, eyes, face, head and body posture.

American Sign Language is the fourth most commonly used language in the United States. It is a visual language with its own grammatical rules and semantics. Many public schools and universities now offer classes in and recognize ASL as a modern “foreign” language.

Deaf Linx is your resource for information on deafness, deaf culture, American Sign Langauge (ASL) and all other related topics. Deaf Linx firmly believes that deafness is not a disability, but a condition that produces a sub-culture that should be celebrated. Many people are unaware of all the accomplishments that deaf individuals have made and the unique ways in which they have come together to create a distinctive identity. Whether you are a deaf person or someone with hearing loss, looking for other individuals in your area, or you just want to learn about deaf culture or deaf society, our resources on deafness are for you.

Deafspot.net is a deaf community news and deaf resource portal that features deaf community event listings, free webmail, captioned movie listings, telecommunications relay services, posting forums, google search, deaf blogs, resource links, deaf travel information, deaf dating services, classified listings, and special resource sections for the Gallaudet and NTID communities.

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The Deaf Resource Library (http://www.deaflibrary.org) is a virtual library -- an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics. While I have a bias towards cultural Deaf models, I have tried to include more material about hard of hearing issues as well.