ASL Resources

 

If you are looking for an interpreter for a BSU-related event or classes, you can contact the Office of Disability Services. Their website contact info is http://www2.boisestate.edu/disabilityservices/contactus.htm, or you may call them at 208-426-1583 (v/vrs).

To locate interpreters in the Boise area, you can find information at http://www.cdhh.idaho.gov/interpreting_services.htm There is a directory of interpreters in the area who will direct-hire for work, as well as contact information for a local interpreting agency.

If you are seeking employment, the following site may be useful:
         Get Sign Language Interpreter Jobs 
http://www.getsignlanguageinterpreterjobs.com

Suggested sources of ASL information.

“Signed Language and the Question of Autonomy”
http://www.mitpress.com/celebration

“From Affect to Grammar: Ritualization of Facial Affect in Signed Languages” by James MacFarlane http://www.unm.edu/~jmacfarl/eyebrow.html

International Bibliography of Sign Language.  
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/

International Directory of Sign Language Linguistics Research.   
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~nzsldict/idslr.html

James McFarlane's website. He is a doctoral student at University of New Mexico.
http://www.unm.edu/~jmacfarl/home.html

The Berkeley Sign Language Acquisition Project has developed a system for transcribing sign language videotapes at the morphological level.
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/sign.pdf

REPRESENTATION OF THE DYNAMIC ELEMENTS OF SIGNS: ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE.
http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox/MM-DASL/mmdasl.html