ASL as a Foreign Language

• Sherman Wilcox's Fact Sheet on ASL

• Universities that Accept ASL in Fulfillment of Foreign Language Requirements

• States that Recognize ASL as a Foreign Language

• "Language Requirement of a Lesser God" 
  (Inside Higher Ed article, Jan. 2005)

Articles

• "Sign of the Times" 
  (A&S Online article about U.V.A. ASL Program, March 2003)
• "Flying Words Project to Land at U.Va." 
  (U.Va. Today story on Flying Words Project and the ASL/Deaf Culture Lecture Series, March 2010)
• Deaf Way II: Celebration of the Deaf Way of Life 
  (article on international Deaf conference and festival)

Articles on U.V.A. ASL Students and Alumni

• "Seeing Voices" 
  (Virginia magazine articles by Julianna Smith '10 and Jasmine Saleh '10, fall 2009)
• "U.Va. Graduate Tyler Spencer Receives Rhode Scholarship" 
  (U.V.A. Today article on Tyler Spencer '08, fall 2009)
• "Listening to Her Calling" 
  (A&S Online article by Cailtin Vogus '07, spring 2009)
• "Finding Cultural Identity in Deafness and Teaching" 
  (U.V.A. Today article about Becca Smith '02, spring 2002)
• "Lawson Lives Richly" 
  (U.V.A. Today article about Elienne Lawson '01, spring 2001)

Libraries / Journals / Databases

• Alderman Library ASL Subject Research Guide
• Sign Language Studies 
  (journal)
• Deaf Studies Digital Journal
• Oxford Journal of Deaf Education and Deaf Studies
• American Annals of the Deaf
• Deaf Studies databases
• Gallaudet University Video Library
• The Deaf Resource Library
• American Sign Language Linguistics Research Project

Additional Resources

• Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
• World Federation of the Deaf
• National Association of the Deaf
• Virginia Association of the Deaf
• Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind--Staunton