"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...

Historical and archival video/film clips from people, places, and events sponsored by the Tennessee School for the Deaf (TSD) in Knoxville, TN and/or its alumni.

A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.

Assists interpreters who are seeking to interpret effectively in educational settings. The format is presented so that interpreters can practice interpretation skills from "spoken English (teacher discourse to sign language (for students" and from "sign language (student discourse) to spoken English"

Assists interpreters who are seeking to interpret effectively in educational settings. The format is presented so that interpreters can practice interpretation skills from "spoken English (teacher discourse to sign language (for students" and from "sign language (student discourse) to spoken English"

Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Garden, has served as a guide for parents and educators for over thirty years. Now he tells his personal story of challenges faced and lessons learned, revealing that the critical, guiding factors for him...

These DVDs were designed to assist interpreters who are seeking to interpret effectively in educational settings. The DVDs will enable interpreters to practice interpretation skills from spoken English(teacher discourse) to sign language (for students) and from sign language (student discourse) to spoken English. These DVDs are authentic resources that will complement the professional development plans for interpreters of all skill levels. This...

This project presents English idioms in sentence format then has two certified interpreters model how to transliterate and interpret each one. The goal of the DVD is to provide a realistic demonstration of what a qualified interpreter would do with the stimulus material. Viewers can watch and listen to the spoken sentence, transliterate the sentence, view the modeled version for feedback, interpret the same sentence, and finally view the modeled...

"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his...

This DVD was designed to assist interpreters who are seeking to interpret effectively in educational settings. This DVD will enable interpreters to practice interpretation skills from "spoken English (teacher discourse to sign language (for students)" and from "sign language (student discourse) to spoken English." The DVD is an authentic resource that will complement the professional development plans for interpreters of all skill levels. DVDs contain...