American Sign Language & Deaf Studies

Welcome! You can use the resources on this page to enhance your language skills as well as immerse yourself in Deaf culture and history. You can use the tabs along the side of this guide to navigate between different types of resources on ASL and Deaf Studies. Remember there are librarians available to help you with locating materials or conducting research. The Ask a Librarian box below left and the Help tab on this page will connect you to the library via online chat, email, phone or in person.

Sign Enhancers

Sign Enhancers – American Sign Language Videos provides online access to almost 100 video programs.  Important note - this resource only works in Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

The subject areas include:

·        Video Tutorials

·        Educational Interpreting

·        Intermediate ASL & Interpreting

·        Fingerspelling

·        Advanced ASL & Interpreting

·        Deaf Studies

·        Certification Prep

·        Deaf Culture Lectures

·        Beginning ASL

·        Deaf Children Samples

·        Interactive Discourse Series

Students, faculty and staff have unlimited access to these videos and can view them both on and off campus.  Here is the link to get to this resource:  https://ezproxy.jccc.edu/loggedin/asl.html

Try searching these keywords when searching Summon:

deaf studies

deaf culture

deaf history

American sign language OR ASL OR sign language