Professional Development > Halifax Regional Library

The Halifax Regional Public Library has materials which may be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about American Sign Language and/or wants to advance his or her interpreting skills:

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  A Basic Course In American Sign Language
  A Basic Course In American Sign Language
  A Journey into the Deaf World
  A Place of their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
  Aids in the Deaf Community/Deaf in the Aids Community, creating partnerships, UCSF Center on Deafness
  American Sign Language Dictionary
  ASL: A Student Text
  Atlantic Province Resource Centre for the Hearing Handicapped Annual Report
   
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  Ben's Story, A Deaf Child's Right to Sign
  Bible Revelations ASL: Revelations 1:1 - 22:21
   
C
   
  Can I Help? Helping the Hearing Impaired in Emergency Situations
  Canadian Dictionary of ASL
   
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  Deaf Empowerment:emergence, struggle and rhetoric
  Deaf Women of Canada
  Directory of Services to the Deaf & Hearing Impaired in the Province of NS
   
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  Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader
   
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  Final Report to the Task Force Investigating the Need for a Visual Language Interpreter Training Program in Nova Scotia
  From Mime To Sign
   
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  Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness
   
H
   
  Hand, Heart & Mind: the Story of the Education of America's Deaf People
   
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  I Am Deaf: Brenda Pettenuzzo meets Amina Munir
  I'm Deaf: It's OK
  I'm Deaf: It's Okay
  In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World
  Interpreting Sign Language
  Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf Annual Report
   
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  Lift Up Your Hands
  Linguistics of ASL: An Introduction
  Living with Disabilities, Basic Manuals for Friends of the Disabled
   
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  Manual Communication: Implications for Education
  Meeting the Challenge, Working with Deaf People in Recovery
  Mental Health Caring for Yourself: produced by Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services
   
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  NTC's Multilingual Dictionary of ASL
  Numbering In ASL: Number Signs for Everyone
   
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  Pursuit of ASL: Interesting Facts Using Classifiers
   
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  Quiet Journey, Understanding the Rights of Deaf Children
   
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  Random House American Sign Language Dictionary
  Random House Webster's American Sign Language Dictionary
  Report of the Interpreter Services Policy Development Committee
   
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  Say It By Signing
  Seeds of Disquiet: One Deaf Woman's Experience
  Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the Land of the Deaf
  Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
  Sign Language Talk
  Signing Made Easy: A Complete Program for Learning Sign Language, includes sentence drills and exercises for increased comprehension and signing skill
  Signing Naturally Student Videotext Level I
  Signs for Me: Basic Sign Vocabulary for Children
  Silent Suffering/Substance Abuse in the Deaf Community/A Production of Signs of Sobriety, Inc
  So You Want To Be An Interpreter? An Introduction to Sign Language Interpreting
   
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  The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary
  The American Sign Language Phrase Book
  The Book of Name Signs: Naming In American Sign Language
  The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community
  The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing: An A to Z Guide to Over 1,350 Signs of ASL
  The School for the Deaf, Halifax, Nova Scotia: 100 Years of Service
  The Silent Garden: Understanding the Hearing-Impaired Child
  Toward Equality: Eduction of the Deaf
  Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World
   
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  Video Sign Language Course: The Convenient and Easy Way to Learn Sign Language
  Violence Can Happen To You
   
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  What is Therapy?
  When the Mind Hears: History of the Deaf
  When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes: Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor
   
   

 
updated 8/29/04