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American Sign Language: Books

Books on Deaf Culture

Damned For Their Difference
by Jan Branson and Don Miller
Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture
by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe
by Donna Ryan and John Schuchman
Deaf World
by Lois Bragg
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language
by Nora Groce
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language
by Douglas Baynton
Inside Deaf Culture
by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Outsiders in a Hearing World
by Paul Higgins
Reading Between the Signs
by Anna Mindness
Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks
Signing the Body Poetic
by Bauman, Rose, Nelson, Stokoe, and Mitchell
When the Mind Hears
by Harlan Lane

American Deaf Culture
by Sherman Wilcox
At Home Among Strangers
by Jerome Schein
A Deaf Adult Speaks Out
by Leo Jacobs
Deaf Again
by Mark Drolsbaugh
Deaf Empowerment
by Katherine Jankowski
Deaf History Unveiled
by John Vickrey Van Cleve
Deaf Like Me
by Thomas and James Spradley
Great Deaf Americans
by Robert Panara
Hands of My Father
by Myron Uhlberg
Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Indsutry
by John Schuchman
A Journey into the Deaf World
by Harlan Lane
Language in Motion
by Jerome Schein and David Stewart
Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness
Brenda Jo Brueggeman
Looking Back
by Renate Fischer
Mother Father Deaf
by Paul Preston

Movers and Shakers: Deaf People Who Changed the World
by Cathryn Carrol
Never the Twain Shall Meet
by Richard Winefield
A Phone of Our Own
by Harry Lang
A Place of Our Own
by John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry Crouch
Say That Again Please
by Tom Bradford
Sign Language and the Deaf Community
by William Stokoe
Signs of Resistance
by Susan Burch
Silence of the Spheres: Deaf Experience in the History of Science
by Harry Lang
Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust
by Eleanor Dunai
Teaching From the Heart and Soul
The Robert Panara Story, by Harry Lang
The Deaf History Reader
by John Vickrey Van Cleve
The Deaf Mute Howls
by Albert Ballin
The Other Side of Silence
by Arden Neisser
The Study of Signed Languages: Essays in Honor of William Stokoe
by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Train Go Sorry
by Leah Cohen
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
by Hannah Joyner and Susan Burch

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Books on Sign Language

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Additional Books

American Sign Language Dictionary
by Martin Sternberg
Barron’s Dictionary of American Sign Language
by Geoffrey Poor
Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing
by Leonard Lane
Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary
by Elaine Costello
Signing Illustrated
by Mickey Flodin
Signing: How to Speak with Your Hands
by Elaine Costello

1000 Signs of Life
by Gallaudet University Press
Advanced Sign Language Vocabulary
by Janet Coleman and Elizabeth Wolf
American Sign Language: Fact and Fancy
by Harry Markowicz
Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language
by Clayton Valli
Learning to See
by Sherman and Phyllis Wilcox
Perfect Phrases in American Sign Language for Beginners
by Lou Fant
Perigree Visual Dictionary of Signing
by Mickey Flodin and Rod Butterworth
Religious Signing: Comprehensive Guide for All Faiths
by Elaine Costello
Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William Stokoe
by Jane Maher
Sign Me Fine
by Laura Greene and Eva Dicker
Signing Everyday Phrases
by Mickey Flodin
Visual Music
by Raymont Anderson
Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary
by Elaine Costello