Lakewood High School Mrs. MacMillan and Mrs. Espenschied

LHS Pathfinders Lakewood City Schools Special Education News Lakewood Public Library

Handspeak.com http://www.handspeak.com/  This visual Sign Language dictionary serves as an aid for deaf students to learn vocabulary. Also includes some foreign language sign.

A Basic Guide to ASL http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

Animated ASL Dictionary http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/

American Sign Language Browser http://www.commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

Deaf Culture & Sign Languages of the Global Village http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/

HiP Magazine Online http://www.hipmag.org/ The mission of this publication is to develop the language arts skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (target age 8-14), foster a love of reading, encourage positive self-image, and create a sense of community. Five issues annually, includes topic search.

About.com: Deafness / Hard of Hearing http://deafness.about.com/health/deafness/ Original articles and links to other resources. Covers a wide variety of topics in deaf culture, e.g., deaf education, deaf animals, stories of deaf sports figures.

Reading Sites: Level 0-2

• The Internet Public Library Story Hour http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
• Chateau Meddybemps http://www.meddybemps.com/index.html Stories to read and learning games.
• ABC Toon Center http://www.abctooncenter.com/ Stories, comic strips, silent movies. Menus in a few other languages.
• BAB Books Online Stories http://www.amtexpo.com/babbooks/
• WonderVista Reading Site http://www.wondervista.com/ Several stories.

Reading Sites: Level 3-6

• Kids Love A Mystery http://www.KidsLoveAMystery.com/ Literacy outreach from the Mystery Writers of America.
• Kids Mysteries http://www.TheCase.com/kids/ From MysteryNet.
• Raccoons from Mars http://www.gti.net/mountarlington/RACMAR/ A hypertext story. Somewhat difficult.
• River of Venom http://www.accessexcellence.org/rov/ A science mystery.
• Arctica http://www.accessexcellence.org/arc/  Another mystery.

Some of several U.S. government agencies that have sites with easy reading levels:

• Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
• America's Story http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
• Career information: Jobs for kids who like... http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
• Explorer's Club http://www.epa.gov/kids/

E-Mail Deaf Clubs http://www.email-deafclubs.com/

DeafChat.com http://www.deafchat.com/

One Day http://www.one-day.com/index.html  A project that uses photography to document deaf culture around the world in a single 24 hour day.

Web Research Resources:

Deaf Resource Library http://www.deaflibrary.org/

Rochester Institute of Technology Subject-Based Deaf and Hard of Hearing Internet Resources http://wally.rit.edu/internet/subject/deafness.html

Basic background articles from ERIC
ESL Literacy for a Linguistic Minority: The Deaf Experience. ERIC digest
Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Total Communication. ERIC Digest #559
Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Bilingual-Bicultural Education. ERIC Digest #E553.
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