Useful Links for Deaf Studies


Here are some website links that you might find interesting:

Deafway – services for deaf people in Preston.
www.deafway.org.uk

Forest Bookshop – a bookshop dedicated to Deaf Studies!
www.forestbooks.com

Deaf Academics:
http://www.deafacademics.org/

 

Deaf Organisations

British Deaf Association (BDA):
www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk

Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP):
www.cacdp.org.uk

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People:
www.hearing-dogs.co.uk

Royal Association for Deaf People (RAD):
www.royaldeaf.org.uk

Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID):
www.rnid.org.uk

Sense:
www.sense.org.uk

The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS):
www.ndcs.org.uk

World Federation of the Deaf:
www.wfdeaf.org

 

Deaf History

British Deaf History Society:
www.deaf-history.org.uk

 

Deaf Sport

British Deaf Football
www.britishdeaffootball.com/

English Federation of Disability Sport
www.efds.net/

International Deaf Sports Committee (CISS)
www.ciss.org/

UK Deaf Sport
www.ukdeafsport.org.uk/

 

Deaf Education

Bilingualism and the Education of Deaf children
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/000000306.htm

Deaf Education Information from the Clerc Center at Gallaudet University, USA
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/

Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers Group:
www.dex.org.uk

The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD):
www.batod.org.uk

Deaf Education through Listening and Talking (DELTA):
www.deafeducation.org.uk

 

Deaf Media

See Hear:
www.bbc.co.uk/seehear

Vee TV:
www.channel4.com/life/microsites/V/vee-tv

 

Deafness and the Arts

Films involving major deaf characters
http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk/deaf1/d1dex.htm

Deaf people in Literature
http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/deafinlit.html

Deafinitely Theatre
http://www.deafinitelytheatre.co.uk/

 

Legislation

Directgov:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en

 

British Sign Language

DeafSign:
www.deafsign.com

Sign On-line:
www.signonline.org.uk

Sign Post:
www.signpostbsl.com