Subject Guides: American Sign Language (ASL): Home

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This guide introduces resources to support your research topics in American Sign Language (ASL). Use the tabs at the top of the page to help you locate background information on your topic, articles, books, and more.

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Key Resources

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA (Proquest)
Scholarly articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers from the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
ComDisDome
Scholarly articles on speech language pathology, audiology, and communication disorders.
Academic Search Complete (Ebscohost)
A multidisciplinary database useful for researching a broad range of topics. Includes newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles.

NTID Deaf Index
Free resource created by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Search listings of articles and information on interpreting, sign language, Deaf studies, Deaf history, and other related topics.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Free resource for information on Deafness and other communication disorders, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness Library
The NCDB LIBRARY provides access to a wealth of information about deaf-blindness, including links organized by topic as well as a searchable publications database. This is a free resource.

Sign Languages Profiles

Ethnologue : Languages of the World
Review profiles with basic information for a variety of language families, including sign languages. Profiles include information on estimated user population, locations spoken, dialects, typology, and more.