Best of the Web - What's New in Science For 7/12/2007

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages

Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary - Two-volume, tri-lingual encyclopedic-dictionary illustrates meanings, movements and words.
Chinese Sign Language - Offers workshops and education for deaf children, and encourages sign language.
Indian Language Alphabetic Sign Language System - Presents several different hand gestures and finger spelling learning.
Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition - Hardware techniques that gathers body positioning.
Language Myths - Discusses interpretations of Pidgin, sign languages and Maori.
Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Languagefrom the Typological Perspective - Contains introductory notes and details on language classifications and grammars.
Sign Language Studies - Includes archives, history, submissions and editorials.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > American_Sign_Language

Deaf Resource Library - American Sign Language - Details ASL linguistics, educational programs, dictionaries and comments.
American Sign Language Browser - Contains materials such as video of thousand signs and learning.
American Sign Language Fingerspelling - Presents slide show, chart, fingerspelled alphabet letter close-ups, and dictionary.
American Sign Language Greetings and Phrases - Illustrates hand movements and interpretations for birthdays, new year, Christmas, and thanksgiving.
American Sign Language is a Foreign Language - Paper demonstrates ASL and illustrates learning for deaf people and their language.
American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project - Investigates syntactic structure and develops tools for data analysis. With description on area of study.
ASLPro.com - Free resource for classroom teacher to create quizzes and practice models. Presents dictionaries, tools and products.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > American_Sign_Language > Education

American Sign Language as a Foreign Language - Details proposal on curriculum, its modified version and benefits.
University of Rochester's American Sign Language Program - Modern language, literature and culture approach of sign language. Details courses, FAQs and events.
American Sign Language Teachers Association - Organization helps improve and expand teaching ASL and deaf studies at all levels. Presents certification and membership details.
Interpreter Education Projects - Provides educational opportunities and preparation for interpreting English language.
American Sign Language Program - Offers array of courses, internship, volunteer, and practicum opportunities. Provides overview, FAQs and profiles.
Instructional Programs - American Sign Language - Prepares students to communicate proficiently and acquire expressive and receptive skills.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > American_Sign_Language > Products_and_Services

Brenda the Bridge - Provides American sign language program, deaf studies and interpreter assistance. With syllabus details.
Commissioned Believers Deaf Ministry - Offers sign language learning, tools and series of workshops. With list of activities and programs.
Deaf Resources - Presents collection of products, accessories and hearing aids.
Signing Family - Offers American sign language classes, girl scout troops and home schooling. Details location and FAQs.
Talking Hands ASL - Features products such as book series, sign language games, deaf gifts, and clothing.
Vcom3D, Inc. - Founded in 1997. Offers training, education and simulation technologies. With solutions and news.
Wee Do Sign - Enhances child's language development and helps improve IQ. With session schedules and contact details.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > American_Sign_Language > Products_and_Services > Instructional_Media

Color of Language - Non-profit organization provides benefits to deaf and hard-of-hearing children. With facts, articles and news.
Dawn Sign Press - Offers texts, videos and interpreting materials, basic sign vocabulary and work books.
Hand Speak - Sign Language - Subscription-based dictionary, lessons and resources. Details benefits of learning and study.
Ready, Set, Sign - Established in 1996. Focuses on sign language course for deaf children and adults. Lists products and resources.
Signs for Intelligence - Features finger spelling curriculum products and advanced American sign language classes.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Auslan

Sign for Summer - Offers selection of courses and resources. Also provides series of activities, worksheets, and interactive games.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Interpreting

Interpreting ASL Resources - Contains links on essays, research projects and opinions that covers American Sign Language.
Interpreters - Workshop helps understanding in quality of interpretations.
European Forum for Sign Language Interpreters - Organization promotes interpreting services, and encourages training.
Clear View Innovations - Presents video relay service, videophone conferencing, deaf events, and community interpreting and programs.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Interpreting > Associations

Alabama Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Provides relevant information and news in the field of sign language transliterating. Lists events and issues.
Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada - National professional association works on English and American Sign Language. With resource and service lists.
Connecticut Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Founded in 1971. Contains resource on various related topics, events update and program list.
Eastern North Carolina Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Organization sponsors and promotes American Sign Language and the transliteration of English.
5 Point RID - Hosts interpreter language grabs, updates events, and provides conferences. Details member's application process and benefits.
Georgia for the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Membership organization provides interpreting and resources, newsletter and events update.
Greater Pittsburgh Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Provides local forums and organizational structure, and promotes profession of interpreters.
Michigan Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Assists and helps people develop skills and services in the interpreting field. With FAQs and program details.
Nashville, Tennessee, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Details meetings, membership, workshops, and programs.
New Jersey Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Non-profit membership-driven professional association offers training programs and promotes activities.
New York City Metro RID, Inc. - Established in 1979, non-profit membership organization initiates and executes interpreting practices.
North Carolina Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Provides local and state forums, promote interpreting ethics, maintains certified transliterators, and supports activities.
Ohio Chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Founded in 1968 by Russell Moore. Provides interpreting opportunities and organizes events and activities.
Pennsylvania Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Provides interpreting services, state and local forums, and learning programs.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Interpreting > Education

ASL English Interpretation - Profession that offers variety of settings and with diverse population, and study on any language.
Conference of Interpreter Trainers - Professional organization focuses on American sign language and English. Details conferences, membership and publications.
Georgia Perimeter College - American Sign Language / Interpreting Program - Provides program and student details, course information and materials and events list.
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - National membership organization consists of interpreters that serves array of settings such as churches and schools.
Interpreter Training - Assists people through training programs. With list of offerings, resource and FAQs.
Center for Deaf Studies and Special Services - Offers comprehensive programs to aid deaf and hard of hearing people.
American Sign Language and Interpreter Training Program - Promotes awareness and understanding of the culture and language of people with hearing disabilities. With program details.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Interpreting > Services

Accommodating Ideas, Inc. - Provides interpreting services and communication options between hearing and deaf people. With resources and training details.
Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind - Rehabilitation system offers school, industries and programs for deaf, blind and multi-disabled children and adults.
American Sign Language Inc. - Offers interpreters for variety of setting and language curriculum, and provides educational programs.
Interpreter Network - Referral agency provides interpreting services to different area. Details rates and training.
American Sign Language Interpreting Services - Company provides professional and ethical sign language services. Lists events and workshops.
Andrea K. Smith - American Sign Language Interpreter - Provides freelance sign language interpreting services.
Anne M. Leahy, Inc. - Based in Washing Ton workshops during conferences provides resume conferences.
Birnbaum Interpreting Services - Deaf-owned and operated company offers interpreting services.
Center for Independent Living of Central PA - Non-residential organization offers interpreting advancement to people with disabilities. Details programs and services.
Centralized Interpreter Referral Service - Enhances communication through sign language and oral interpreters, ALS classes, and deaf awareness workshops.
Interpreter Referral Service - Links people with sign language and employs qualified interpreters.
Communication Access Center - Non-profit agency provides communication, cultural and environmental services. Lists services and FAQs.
Communication Access Network of America - Provides community with an interpreters and interliterati later.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Interpreting > Special_Interest_Groups

Interpreters with Deaf Parents - Promote greater understanding and awareness on the benefits of interpretations. Details history and meetings.
National Alliance of Black Interpreters, Inc. - Organization supports sign language interpreters from African diaspora. Lists services, members and conferences.
National Multicultural Interpreter Project - Provides education and training opportunities, with curriculum information.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Native_American_Sign_Systems

Indian Sign Language - Illustrates numbers, body and senses, time and life in the tribe.
Indian Sign Language Dictionary - Contains word list, introductory notes, sample illustrations and expression, and practice sentences.
Plains Indian Sign Language - Conference records ancient gesture language of Indian people as inter tribal communication.
First People's Language Resources - Contains links to teaching and study on cultural information, languages and centers.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

Children’s Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - Study examines deaf children's sign language constructions and grammatical structures. Also sights evidences, comparisons and effects.
Nicaraguan Sign Language - Provides literacy training and education. Details projects and programs.
Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. - Contains selection of projects and research, publications and media coverage.
Sign Writing In Nicaragua - Details history, reports, teacher's experiences, and series of articles.
Linguistic Big Bang - Reports the birth of sign language and system, and accounts its history.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Language_and_Linguistics > Languages > Natural_Languages > Sign_Languages > Signing_with_Babies

Australian Baby Hands - Details baby sign information, child care, class offerings, and FAQs.
Babies and Sign Language - Introduces benefits and learning on baby signs, classes, activities and resources.
Baby Fingers - Offers programs for sign language, various classes, and products.
My Baby Can Talk - Features videos of first baby sign language learning programs.
Baby Sign - Helps lessen toddler's frustration, enhance learning communication, and develop speech.
Baby Sing and Sign - Language development program with several musical experiences and activities for hearing infants and toddlers.
Baby Talk - Baby Sign Language - Uses simple gestures with hearing child to enhance speech. With local workshops, resources and shop info.
Baby Talk UK - Uses British Sign Language on courses, helps bilingual children and offers support to hearing babies.
Baby Sign Academy - Offers baby signing 101 course that teaches parents to communicate to hearing infant or toddler.
Creative Hands - Comprehensive sign language resource provides interactive approach to education. Details lessons, FAQs and programs.
Hands First Baby Sign - Encourages parents to use sign language for early communication development. Offers teaching and classes.
Kindersigns - Teaches sign language to communicate with hearing babies. Details benefits, products, and FAQs.
Little Hands Big Voices - Teaches and facilitates language signs and communication learning with babies.
Little Signers, Inc. - Teaches sign language as a supplemental form of communication to children. Details benefits and FAQs, articles and classes.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Sociology > Academic_Departments > United_States

University of Plymouth - Contains course information for undergraduate and postgraduate programs, research enterprise, plus external links.
University of Huddersfield - Posts admission requirements, contact details, and prospectus.
University of Kent - Composed of three main groups of teaching staff and three main research units. Also includes details for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, staff directory and resource links.
University of Ulster - Organized into 5 groups of academic subject areas: Social Policy and Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Community Youth Work and Women's Opportunities. Lists courses for undergraduate to postgraduate programs.
University of Salford - Offers teachings in six major clusters: crime, punishment and social control; health, risk and technology, popular culture, qualitative research; social and cultural theory and social inclusion. Career prospects and course details are also available.
University of Exeter - Specializes in cultural theory and cultural practice; features research work; news and events. Also includes course details for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Sociology > Journals

Science Studies - Publishes articles on science and technology studies.
Social Problems Journal - Official journal of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, per year subscription basis. Published by the University of California Press. Electronic version available.
Social Science History - Seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to its interdisciplinary readership of historians, sociologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and geographers.
Social Science History - Official journal of the Social Science History Association. Published quarterly by Duke University Press.
Social Science Research - Consists of papers on quantitative social science research and methodology.
Social Text - Brings together cultural studies on a variety of social and cultural phenomena, including debates in post colonialism, postmodernism and popular culture.
Sociological Forum - Encompasses qualitative and quantitative studies in all areas of sociology.
Sociological Methodology - Annual volume on methods of research in the social sciences, including recently developed techniques and critical discussions of research practice.
Sociological Methods and Research - Presents new techniques and innovative approaches to recurring research challenges and also clarifies existing methods.
Sociological Research Online - Discusses theory and methodology in research on political, cultural and intellectual topics.
The Sociological Review - Deals with all areas of sociology, social anthropology and other related topics.
South Atlantic Journal - Tackles analyses of national, cultural and intellectual scenes worldwide, including postmodernist writers and a wide range of cultural phenomena.
Southern Rural Sociology - Official journal of the Southern Rural Sociology Association designed to encourage research into rural problems and opportunities that exist in the South.
Strategic Organization - Journal on conceptual and empirical research on strategic and organizational processes and outcomes.
Thesis Eleven - Publishes theories and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations on society, culture, and politics and the understanding of modernity. Cultivates diversity of critical theories of modernity.

Top > Science > Technology > Quality_Engineering > Nondestructive_Testing

Incon: Inspection Consultants Ltd - Specialists in non destructive testing, industrial radiography and positive material identification.

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