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Sign Language Books

A Basic Course in American Sign Language, by Carol Padden, Tom Humphries, and Terrence O'Rourke.

American Sign Language, “The Green Books,” by Charlotte Baker-Shenk and Dennis Cokely.

American Sign Language: A Comprehensive Dictionary, by Martin L. A. Sternberg, EdD.

American Sign Language Medical Dictionary, by Elaine Costello.

American Sign Language Phrase Book, by Lou Fant.

American Sign Language the Easy Way, by David A. Stewart.

Conversational Sign Language II, by Willard Madsen.

Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing, by Leonard G. Lane.

Handmade Alphabet, by Laura Rankin.

Learning American Sign Language, by Tom Humphries and Carol Padden.

Learn American Sign Language, by Arlene Rice (flashcards and booklet).

Medical Sign Language, by W. Joseph Garcia and Charles C. Thomas.

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Dictionary, by Elaine Costello, PhD.

Religious Signing, by Elaine Costello.

Signing Made Easy, by Rod R. Butterworth and Mickey Flodin.

Signs Across America, by Edgar H. Shroyer and Susan P. Shroyer.

Signs of the Times, by Edgar H. Shroyer.

Talking with Your Hands and Listening with Your Eyes, by Gabriel Grayson.

The Joy of Signing, by Lottie L. Riekehof.

The Joy of Signing Puzzle Book, by Linda Lascelle Hillebrand.

The Joy of Signing Puzzle Book 2, by Linda Lascelle Hillebrand with Lottie L. Riekehof.

The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing, by Rod R. Butterworth.

Cochlear Implant Information Resources

Children with Cochlear Implants in Educational Settings, by Mary Ellen Nevins and Patricia M. Chute.

Cochlear Implants: A Handbook, by Bonnie Poitras Tucker.

Cochlear Implants in Children, by John B. Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh.

Hear Again Back to Life, by Arlene Romoff.

The Handbook of Cochlear Implants and Children, by Nancy Tye-Murray.

The Handbook of Pediatric Audiology, by Sanford E. Gerber.

The Parent's Guide to Cochlear Implants, by Patricia M. chute and Mary Ellen Nevins.

Deaf Literature

A Deaf Adult Speaks Out, Third Edition, by Leo M. Jacobs.

A Loss for Words, by Lou Ann Walker.

A Man Without Words, by Susan Schaller.

American Deaf Culture: An Anthology, by Sherman Wilcox, ed.

Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature, by Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman, eds.

At Home among Strangers, by Jerome D. Schein.

Deaf History Unveiled, by John V. VanCleve, ed.

Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture, by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries.

Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley.

Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University, by John B. Christiansen and Sharon N. Barnartt.

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard, by Nora Ellen Groce.

I Have a Sister — My Sister Is Deaf, by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson.

Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence, by Paul Michael Preston.

Seeing Voices, by Oliver Sacks.

The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community, by Harlan Lane.

The Week the World Heard Gallaudet, by J. Gannon.

Train Go Sorry, by Leah Hager Cohen.

What's That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness, by Henry Kisor.

When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf, by Harlan Lane.

You and Your Deaf Child, by John W. Adams.

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