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ASL Research Guide

Introduction

This guide is designed to assist students enrolled in American Sign Language (ASL) courses with locating Library resources for further study or their research assignments. The guide is organized into steps that cover the basic research process for locating and citing relevant sources used in writing a paper or other projects. For general research assistance other than ASL, view the links listed under Research Tools.

Subject keyword search terms related to American Sign Language include:

American Sign Language • ASL • Sign language • Body language • Deaf • Hard of hearing • Deaf and hard of hearing • Deaf means of communication • Gesture • Gesture and sign language • Interpreters for the deaf • Sign language interpreter • Sign language history • Deaf social conditions • Sign language study • Sign language teaching • Sign language study and teaching • Deaf education • Deaf community  • International sign • Deaf studies • Deaf history