City Lit Online

A collection of learning resources for students and teachers of Deaf studies (incl. BSL)

Learning materials ; E-books and journals ; Abstracts and indexes ; Organisations ; Other links

Learning materials

The Learning Materials listed below may be useful to supplement your studies at the City Lit, although the City Lit is not responsible for any of the content. Students should seek advice from their tutors about the suitability of this material.

Signstation : Want to know about British Sign Language (BSL)? Signstation has video, interactive exercises, pictures, graphics and explanations about BSL and Deaf people at work. Signstation supports Deaf awareness training under the Disability Discrimination Act.

pd4me : A new professional development resource for visual language interpreters and related professionals brought to you by ASLI and RNID.

Watch words : Deaf awareness training for teachers. Produced by South Downs College. Requires Macromedia Flash.

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E-books and journals

City Lit has purchased a number of e-books, including items on deafness, which can be accessed via the library catalogue, or directly from Dawsonera. To access these e-books, you will need to select "Enter your institutional username and password", the select "City Literary Institute", then enter your City Lit network username and password.

Deafness and education international 1999- Available within CityLit only

Journal of deaf studies and deaf education (Oxford University Press) Archive of back issues from 1999 To access some fulltext articles, you may need to login. Follow the links "Login via your institution", and use your City Lit network username and password

People Registered Deaf or Hard of Hearing : Year ending 31 March 2007, in England : This publication contains detailed statistics of persons registered as deaf and hard of hearing with Councils with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSRs) in England. The data are compiled from the triennial return SSDA 910 submitted by Councils to The Information Centre (The IC). People who are registered as deaf or hard of hearing that are also blind or partially sighted are recorded on the Register of Blind and Partially Sighted Persons (SSDA 902 form), unless stated these are excluded from this report.

Research at Gallaudet newsletter

The Silent Worker : a popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the United States during the end of the 1890's through the end of the first quarter of the 20th century. Originally known as the Deaf Mute Times, it was first published in February 1888 and renamed The Silent Worker on September 27 of the same year. The New Jersey School for the Deaf continued its publication monthly, except for July, August, and periodically September until it ceased in June 1929. Deaf American authors wrote almost all articles, although occasional contributions by deaf individuals from other countries were also printed. Gallaudet University Archives has converted their collection of The Silent Worker from 1888 to 1929 into digital format, and made it available on the World Wide Web for public research.

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Abstracts and Indexes

ERIC : ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Ingenta Connect : The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications available for online delivery (Charges made for supply of full text articles).

International Bibliography of Sign Language : The bibliography contains 36.000 titles of academic literature and 4.800 abstracts. It focuses on modern sign language research. Beyond that, the bibliography records text related to Deaf culture, sign language interpreting as well as education of the deaf. The bibliography does not only refer to monographic books and readers, but also to articles in readers and journals. Being an adequate medium in sign language research, videos as well as digital media are also recorded.

NTID Deaf Index : This index was created to help locate articles, papers, publications, and information on Interpreting, Interpreting Issues, Sign Language, Deaf Studies, Deaf History, and other related materials. It contains over 18,000 entries.

UK PubMed Central : Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.

Social Care Online Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive database of social care information. With everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites and you find it all with the click of a button. Updated daily by SCIE's experienced information managers, Social Care Online offers unrivalled free access and ease of use. Includes material relevant to deaf studies.

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Organisations

ASLI : Association of Sign Language Interpreters

The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf

Hearning Concern Link the newly united charity providing support and information to people with a hearing loss and their families (formerly Hearing Concern and the LINK Centre for Deafened People).

RNID : RNID is the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. As a membership charity, we aim to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people.

Royal National Institute for Deaf People Library : The RNID Library (managed by UCL) is open to the public for reference access. There is no need to make an appointment, although anyone travelling from a distance is advised to check with us first that the library will be open as advertised.

Sign Community : British Deaf Association : This site contains the latest information about the British Deaf Association, British Sign Language and the Deaf community.

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