The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia seeks to carve out a new and critical perspective on Deaf Studies with the focus that the Deaf are not a people with a disability to be treated and "cured" medically, but rather, are members of a distinct cultural group with a distinct and vibrant community and way of being.

Table of Contents

• Reader's Guide
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Volume 1
• A
• Academic Test Bias
• Actors
• Adoption
• Africa, Eastern: Deaf Community
• Africa, Middle: Deaf Community
• Africa, Southern: Deaf Community
• Africa, Western: Deaf Community
• American Sign Language, Positive Psychological Effects of
• American Sign Language and English Literacy, Interdependence of
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Aphasia and Brain Lesions
• Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
• Art and Literature, Deaf History of and Participation in
• Art Genres and Movements
• Artists
• Artists in Residency
• Arts, Performing
• Asia, Southeast: Deaf Community
• Asia, Southern: Deaf Community
• Asia, Western: Deaf Community
• Assessment Accommodations and Testing Modifications
• Audism
• Autism Spectrum
• Avatar Technology
• B
• Baby Signs
• Biblical Tradition, References to Deaf in
• Bilingualism
• Bilingualism, Philosophy and Models of
• Bioethics
• Books
• Bullying
• Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
• C
• Camenisch v. University of Texas
• Canada: Deaf Community
• Captioning
• Captioning Technology, Media
• Catholicism
• Central America: Deaf Community
• Child Welfare and Child Abuse
• Children, Deaf, of Deaf Parents
• Children, Deaf, of Hearing Parents
• Children of Deaf Adults
• Christianity
• Civil War, U.S.: Deaf History of and Participation in
• Classroom, Signing in the
• Cochlear Implant: Deaf Community
• Cognitive Processes
• Combined Method, Philosophy and Models of
• Commission on the Education of the Deaf
• Communications Act: Section 255
• Community Television of Southern California v. Gottfried
• Costner v. United States
• Crime and Delinquency
• D
• Deaf Art
• Deaf Centrism and Deaf Centricity
• Deaf Cinema
• Deaf Crit
• Deaf Culture
• Deaf Dean Now Protest
• Deaf Drivers and Deaf Workers: Advocacy Work of the National Association for the Deaf
• Deaf Education History: 1980 to Present
• Deaf Education History: Milan 1880
• Deaf Education History: Post-1880 to 1979
• Deaf Education History: Pre-1880
• Deaf Gain
• Deaf History: 1300–1800
• Deaf History: 1800–1880
• Deaf History: 1881–1920
• Deaf History: 1921–1980
• Deaf History: 1981 to Present
• Deaf History: Antiquity
• Deaf History: Caribbean
• Deaf History: Central America
• Deaf History: Eastern Asia
• Deaf History: Eastern Europe
• Deaf History: Middle Africa
• Deaf History: Northern Europe
• Deaf History: Oceania
• Deaf History: South America
• Deaf History: Southeast Asia
• Deaf History: Southern Africa
• Deaf History: Southern Asia
• Deaf History: Western Europe
• Deaf International Development
• Deaf Learners, Cognition of
• Deaf President Now Protest
• Deaf Professionals in American Art Museums
• Deaf Rights Activism, Global Protests
• Deaf Studies
• Deaf Studies: Disability Studies Perspective and Controversy
• Deaf Studies Programs
• Deaf Theory
• Deaf/Deaf: Origins and Usage
• Deafhood
• DeafSpace
• Demographics
• Department of Education, U.S.
• De'VIA Manifesto
• Digital Arts
• Diversity: Disability and Deaf Studies
• Diversity: First Nation Peoples of North America
• Diversity: LGBTQI
• Diversity: Women
• Domestic Violence and Services
• Driving Restrictions Protests
• Dysconscious Audism
• Volume 2
• E
• Early Intervention and Newborn Screening
• Eckstein v. Kirby
• Education, Early Intervention in
• Education, History of Total Communication in
• Education: Higher Education
• Education: Professional Organizations
• Education: Transition
• Education Laws, Federal: Impact on Education of the Deaf
• Education of the Deaf Act of 1986
• Education Programs: K–12 Charter Schools
• Education Programs: K–12 Day Schools
• Education Programs: K–12 Mainstream Programs
• Education Programs: K–12 Oral Schools
• Education Programs: K–12 Residential Schools
• Education Settings, Placement in
• Educational Assessment Measures
• Employment: Affirmative Action
• Employment: Career Opportunities and Choices
• Employment: Depression and the New Deal
• Employment: Government Assistance
• Employment: Labor Bureaus
• Employment: Oppression
• Employment: Peddling
• Employment: Rehabilitation Services Administration
• Employment: U.S. Works Progress Administration
• Equality Issues
• Eugenics
• F
• FAX Technology
• Film: Deaf Characters
• Film: Documentaries
• Film: Silent, Indies, and Post-Talkies Era
• Flail v. Bolger
• Folklore
• G
• Genealogy, Deaf History of
• Genetic Counseling
• Genetics: Connexin 26 and Connexin 30
• Genetics and Ancestry
• Genetics and Heredity
• Geographies
• Group Membership and Exclusion
• H
• Hearing Aids
• Hearing Conditions, Screening and Assessment
• Hearing Conditions and Auditory Disorders, Causes of
• Hearing Mechanisms, Internal
• Hearing People in Deaf Education
• Hendrick Hudson Board of Education v. Rowley
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 2008
• I
• Identity Development
• Individualized Education Program and Least Restrictive Environment, Placement in
• International Day of Sign Language
• International Signs
• Interpreter Training, University
• Interpreting
• Interpreting, Categories of
• Interpreting, History of
• Interpreting, Legal
• Interpreting, Medical
• Interpreting: Agencies
• Interpreting: Deaf Interpreter
• Interpreting: Professional Organizations
• Interpreting: Tasks
• Inventors
• Islam
• J
• Jackson v. Indiana
• Japan: Deaf Community
• Jones v. Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services
• Journals, Deaf Education
• Journals, Deaf Studies
• L
• Labeling
• Language: Oralism Versus Manualism
• Language Acquisition and Development
• Language Assessment Tools
• Language Attitudes
• Language Contact of Spoken and Signed Languages
• Languages, Natural
• Legislation, Disability
• Legislation, Interpreter
• Legislation, Proposed: Assembly Bill 2072
• Legislation, Proposed: House Bill 1367
• Legislation, United States
• Legislators
• Linguicism
• Linguistic and Human Rights, Constitutional Recognitions of
• Linguistic and Human Rights Ratifications, European Union
• Linguistic Genocide
• Linguistic Minority Law, International
• Linguistics: Etymology
• Linguistics: Generativism
• Linguistics: Gestures and Homesigns
• Linguistics: Morphology
• Linguistics: Nonmanual Markers
• Linguistics: Phonetics
• Linguistics: Phonology
• Linguistics: Pragmatics
• Linguistics: Semantics
• Linguistics: Spatial Grammar
• Linguistics: Structuralism
• Linguistics: Syntax
• Literacy
• Literature, Deaf Characters in
• Literature, Deaf Themes in
• M
• Magicians
• Mainstreaming and Social Capital
• Manualism, Philosophy and Models of
• Media, Stereotype of Deaf People in
• Medicine: Professional Organizations
• Mental Health
• Mental Health Services
• Mentors and Role Models
• Misdiagnosis of Deaf People
• Missionaries
• Mormonism
• Multilingualism
• Music, Signed
• Volume 3
• N
• National Multicultural Interpreter Project
• Nativism
• Neurolinguistics and Cortex Imaging
• Neuropsychology
• O
• Oralism, Philosophy and Models of
• Oralism, Psychological Effects of
• P
• Parent Education
• People of Illinois v. Lang
• Poetry
• Poetry, Signed
• Poetry, Signed: Themes of
• Psycholinguistics, Milestones in
• Psycholinguistics, Primary
• Psycholinguistics: Visual Processing
• Psychological Evaluations and Testing
• Psychology, Multicultural
• Public Policy Issues
• Puerto Rico: Deaf Community
• Pyles v. Kamka
• R
• Religious Materials, Access to Translated
• Residential Schools, History of
• Residential Schools, Segregation in
• Rhythm Stories and Songs, Signed
• S
• Schornstein v. New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Science, Deaf History of and Participation in
• Sign Language, Endangered
• Sign Language, Hawaiian
• Sign Language, Indigenous
• Sign Language: Africa
• Sign Language: Arabic Fingerspelling
• Sign Language: Caribbean
• Sign Language: Central America
• Sign Language: Eastern Europe
• Sign Language: Japan
• Sign Language: JSL Fingerspelling
• Sign Language: Name Signs
• Sign Language: One-Handed Fingerspelling
• Sign Language: Pacific Region
• Sign Language: Scandinavia
• Sign Language: South America
• Sign Language: Southern Asia
• Sign Language: Southern Europe
• Sign Language: Tactile
• Sign Language: Two-Handed Fingerspelling
• Sign Language: United Kingdom and Ireland
• Sign Language: Western Asia
• Sign Language as Academic Language
• Sign Language Literature
• Sign Language Research: 1980 to Present
• Sign Language Research: Pre-1980
• Sign Language Teaching, Curriculum Models of
• Sign Language Teaching, Foreign Language Requirements for
• Sign Language Teaching, History of
• Sign Language: Southern Europe
• Sign Languages, Recognition of
• Sign Systems, Cued Speech
• Sign Systems, Methodical
• Sign Writing
• Signed Language Linguistics, History of
• Signed Language Literacy, Definition of
• Signed Language Pathology
• Signed Language Policy
• Signed Language Rights, Attitudes Toward
• Signing Communities
• Social Hearing Handicap Index
• Social Media
• Social Work
• Socioemotional Development
• Sociolinguistics: Black American Sign Language
• Sociolinguistics: Dialects, Regionalisms, and Ethnic Varieties
• Sociolinguistics: Registers
• Sociology of Deaf People
• South America: Deaf Community
• Southeastern Community College v. Davis
• Special Education, Philosophy and Models of
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Sports, Deaf History of
• Strathie v. Department of Transportation
• Substance Abuse
• Summer Programs
• Surdescence
• T
• Teacher Training, Bilingual
• Teaching Profession, Philosophies of
• Teaching Profession, Preparation for
• Teaching Profession, Requirements of
• Technology, Assistive
• Technology, Tactile
• Technology, Wireless
• Telecommunications Act of 1996
• Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc., Formation of
• Teletypewriter (TTY)
• Television: Cultural Deaf Programming
• Television: Mainstream Programming
• Theater, Adapted
• Theater, Original
• Theology
• Transnationalism
• U
• UN Convention on Genocide
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
• UNESCO Education Position Paper (2003)
• United States: Deaf Community
• Unity for Gallaudet Protest
• V
• Volunteerism
• W
• War, Deaf History of and Participation in
• Women, Deaf: History of
• World War II, Deaf History of
• Writers