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Cochlear

Moore, Brian C. J. Cochlear Hearing Loss. London: Whurr, 1998. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=13198>.

Deaf Education

Hawkins, Frances Pockman. The Logic of Action: Young Children at Work. Boulder: Colorado Associated UP, 1986. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=167>. Also available in print: 4th floor HV2430.H38

Issues Unresolved : New Perspectives on Language and Deaf Education. Ed. Amatzia Weisel. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1998. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12049>. Also available in print: 4th floor, Archives (3rd floor) and ETRR HV2430 .I77 1998

Jankowski, Katherine A. Deaf Empowerment : Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric.Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1997. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12031>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2530 .J35 1997

Language Acquisition by Eye. Ed. Charlene Chamberlain, Jill P. Morford, and Rachel I. Mayberry. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=19315>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2474 .L33 2000  

Ramsey, Claire L. Deaf Children in Public Schools: Placement, Context, and Consequences. Vol. 3. The sociolinguistics in deaf communities series.Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1997. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12030>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2430 .R350 1997  

Diversity

Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience. Ed. Ila Parasnis. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=42540>. Also available in print: 4th floor, Archives (3rd floor) and ETRR HV2545 .C85 1996  

Family Issues

Bowers, Tressa. Alandra's Lilacs. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12016>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HQ759.913 .B68 1999.  

Frazier-Maiwald, Virginia, and Lenore M. Williams. Keys to Raising a Deaf Child. New York: Barron's, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=52269>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2391 .F7 1999. 

Gregory, Susan. Deaf Children and Their Families. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=42231>. Also available in print, 4th floor HV2392.2 .G74 1995  

Stewart, David A., and Barbara Luetke-Stahlman. The Signing Family : What Every Parent Should Know about Sign Communication. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1998. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12075>. Also available in print: 4th floor, HV2474 .S685 1998  

History

Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006 .
http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12026 Also available in print 4th floor and ETRR HV 2748.B5412 1999

Buchanan, Robert M. Illusions of Equality. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12048 Also available in print 4th floor and ETRR HV2530 .B83 1999

Gallaudet, Edward Miner. History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907. Ed. Lance J. Fischer and David L. De Lorenzo. Washington, DC: Gallaudet College, 1983. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12045>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2530 .G33 1983  

Interpreters and/or Interpreting

Innovative Practices for Teaching Sign Language Interpreters. Ed. Cynthia B. Roy. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 2000. netLibrary.RIT Lib., Rochester,NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=41779>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2402 .I56 2000   

Language and or Linguistics Issues

Neidle, Carol. The Syntax of American Sign Language : Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. netLibrary. RIT Lib.,Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=21784>. Also available in print:4th floor and ETRR HV2474 .S994 2000  

The Signs of Language Revisited : An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Ed. Karen Emmorey and Harlan Lane. Mahwah,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=45443>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2474 .S573 2000  

Storytelling and Conversation : Discourse in Deaf Communities. Ed. Elizabeth Winston. Vol. 5. Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series. Washington,  DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12081>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2474 .S76 1999  

Literature

Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. Ed. Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1985. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12024>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR PN6071.D35A6 1985  

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Lend Me Your Ear : Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness.Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/loginurl=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12052>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2380 .B69 1999  

Personal Narratives

Davis, Morris J. Shall I Say a Kiss? : The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple,1936-1938. Ed. Lennard J. Davis. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999.netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12074>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2534.D38 A3 1999  

Nieminen, Raija. Voyage to the Island. Trans. Raili Ojala and Carolyn Norris.Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1990. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12083>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR. 

Wright, Mary Herring. Sounds like Home : Growing up Black and Deaf in the South. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 27 June 2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12079>. Also available in print: 4th floor and ETRR HV2534.W75 A3 1999  

Sign Language Dictionaries

Lane, Leonard G. Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1990. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June
2006 <http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12039>. Also available in print: 4th floor HV2475 .L36 1990  

Tennant, Richard A., and Marianne Gluszak Brown. The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1998. netLibrary. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY. 28 June 2006
<http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12023>. Also available in print: REF & 4th floors and ETRR HV2475 .T46 1998