These resources are related to the showing of Josh Aronson's Documentary “Sound and Fury," shown on 28 September, as a part of the Center for Ethics Fall 2004 series. For more information on the program visit the Center for Ethics website.

Material by Josh Aronson, on Library Reserve for The Center for Ethics

Sound and fury [Videotape]. New York: New Video, 2000
Videos - Circ Desk 305.908162 S724a

Reference Works

Accardo, Pasquale J. and Barbara Y. Whitman, eds. Dictionary of developmental disabilities terminology, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Pub., 2002.
Ref. 618.9285889 A169d

Alliance for Technology Access. Computer and web resources for people with disabilities : a guide to exploring today's assistive technology, 3rd ed. Alameda, CA: Hunter House Publishers, 2000.
Ref. 004.087 A436c

Dell Orto, Arthur E. and Robert P. Marinelli, eds. Encyclopedia of disability and rehabilitation. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1995.
Ref. 362.403 E56o

Pelka, Fred. The ABC-CLIO companion to the disability rights movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Ref. 323.3 P384a

Sternberg, Martin L. A. American sign language : a comprehensive dictionary. New York : Harper & Row, 1981.
Ref. 419 S839a

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Comunication and Mass Media Complete
Communication studies covers the area of communication science and disorders. It contains many full-text communication studies articles.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and deafness.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
This sociology database is an excellent source for finding articles on how deaf people interact with their society, and how the general society interacts with them. Also, use this database to find articles on public policy relating to disability and deafness.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Aged, Deaf
Children, Deaf
Children of deaf parents
Cochlear implants
Dance for people with disabilities
Deaf
Deaf education
Deaf government policy
Deafness
Dancers with disabilities
Disability studies
Interpreters for the deaf
Parents of deaf children
Sign language
Sociology of disability

Selected works from the main collection:

Note: The Trexler Library is home to The Dr. Carl F. Odhner Disabilities Resources Collection. You can follow the link to search for materials in the collection. Even more items can be found by searching the regular library catalog using your designated keywords or subject headings.

Branson, Jan and Don Miller. Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet, 2002.
Main Collection 305.9081 B821d

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Lend me your ear : rhetorical constructions of deafness. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
Main Collection 362.42 B889L

Buckley, Kathy. If you could hear what I see : lessons about life, luck, and the choices we make. New York: Dutton, 2001.
Main Collection 362.42092 B924i

Burch, Susan. Signs of resistance : American deaf cultural history, 1900 to World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Main Collection 305.9082 B947s

Krentz, Christopher, ed. A mighty change : an anthology of deaf American writing, 1816-1864. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.
Main Collection 810.8 K92m

Lane, Harlan L. The mask of benevolence: disabling the deaf community, new ed. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress, 1999.
Main Collection 362.42 L265m

Lane, Harlan L, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan. A journey into the deaf-world. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress, 1996.
Main Collection 305.908162 L265j

Marschark, Marc and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, eds. Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
Main Collection 362.42 M363o

Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, eds. Disability studies : enabling the humanities. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Main Collection 305.90816 S675d

Van Cleve, John Vickrey, ed. Deaf history unveiled : interpretations from the new scholarship. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
Main Collection 305.9082 V222d

Selected Websites

Governmental Organizations

Americans with Disabilites Act Homepage
http://www.ada.gov

National Council on Disability
http://www.ncd.gov/

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/

National Library of Medicine, Cochlear Implants in Adults and Children
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=hstat4.chapter.14810

Associations and Centers

ADARA: Professional Networking for Excellence in Service Delivery with Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
http://www.adara.org

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
http://www.agbell.org

American Association of the Deaf-Blind
http://www.aadb.org

American Society for Deaf Children
http://www.deafchildren.org

Captioned Media Program, National Association of the Deaf Project
http://www.cfv.org

Cochlear Implant Association, Inc.
http://www.cici.org

Council on Education of the Deaf
http://www.deafed.net

Gallaudet University (University dedicated to serve deaf and hard of hearing students.)
http://www.gallaudet.edu

National Association of the Deaf
http://www.nad.org

National Center on Deafness
http://ncod.csun.edu/

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