Sign Language Interpreting: Videos

A SUBJECT search in the WSU library catalog for "films for the hearing impaired" will retrieve a list of over 675 results; all films in these results are closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

6 DVD's about training of, study & teaching, vocabulary, grammar, storytelling including: A. English idioms : 'getting your ducks in a row' (40 min.) -- B. ASL vocabulary (40 min.) -- C. Vocabulary, affect & structure (45 min.) -- D. ASL sentences (30 min.) -- E. ASL mini-stories (45 min.) -- F. ASL stories (30 min.) -- G. ASL dialogues (25 min.) -- H. Funny bones (25 min.)

A complete program consisting of 32 videocassettes offers a simple, step-by-step approach to learn basic words, phrases, and expressions of American Sign Language with interpretation.

"Illustrates the benefits and positive implications of introducing American Sign Language to children regardless of whether their hearing is impaired."

Includes links to full-length films in ASL; other works in ASL like stories, poems, comedy shows, documentaries, interviews, one-woman shows, etc.; film festivals; films in other sign languages; films in English with significant use of ASL (or other Sign Language).

The author and performer, Dr. Elaine Costello, is an educator and author who has been associated with the deaf community for over 20 years. If you want to master the basic words, phrases, and expressions of American Sign Language (ASL), then "Getting started in signing" is the right course for you. This complete program offers a simple, step-by-step approach to learning this beautiful language.

Created in 1996, these 33 VHS tapes are divided into four parts: One-to-one interactions (7 tapes), Small group discussions (2 tapes), Simultaneous lectures (12 tapes) and Consecutive lectures (12 tapes). "These materials mirror the types of interactions in which interpreters work: one-to-one interactions, small group discussions, and lectures before a large group".

DVD includes actual auditory-verbal therapy and parent guidance sessions, showing family members and therapists assisting a young girl who became deaf as an infant due to meningitis. Provides an in-depth observation of how parent-professional partnership in therapy guides a child to success.

Lectures on the history of language and linguistics by John McWhorter on 6 videodiscs. Sections include: What Is language? -- When language began -- How language changes--sound change, building new material, meaning and order, many directions, modern English; -- Language families--Indo-European, tracing Indo-European, diversity of structures, clues to the past; -- The case against the world's first language -- The case for the world's first language -- Dialects -- subspecies of species, where do you draw the line?, two tongues in one mouth, the standard as token of the past, spoken style, written style, the fallacy of blackboard grammar; --Language mixture--words, grammar, language areas; -- Language develops beyond the call of duty -- Language interrupted -- A new perspective on the story of English -- Does culture drive language change? -- Language starts over--Pidgins, Creoles I, Creoles II, signs of the new, the Creole continuum -- What Is Black English? --Language death, etc.