United Methodist Committee on Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries

Find-a-church

The Find-A-Church program from United Methodist Communications now offers lists of churches with ASL interpretation (listed under languages).

Sign Language and ASL

• What is Sign Language? from Disabled World.
• A few things to know about ASL (NPR)
  
• "The enchanting music of sign language," a TED talk by Christine Sun Kim.
  
• “Nurturing the Basics: ASL Learning Resources for Novices” Assistive Technology Blog (December 2023)
• Online Sign Language Dictionary a list from Disabled World (September 2023)
• Signing Savvy, “your sign language resource” allows the user to type in a word or phrase and watch it in ASL. It shows some variations, and could be a good site for reference purposes. Because signs may vary from region to region, these are only examples of possible signs, and users may wish to look into local resources for learning sign language as well.
• Sign Language Book Creator
• Amazon's Alexa Learns ASL (July 2019)
• The UMC ASL glossary
• A Video Phone makes ASL communication easy
• Deaf Scientists Just Created Over 1000 New Signs to Dramatically Improve Ability to Communicate (Leaps Magazine, August 2019)
• Inventing sign language for Deaf scientists (BBC, July 2019)
  
• Sign Language history
• The secret sign language of the Ottoman court
• The history of sign language and how it started a movement: a review of R. Edwards, Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture
• “Black, Deaf and Extremely Online” New York Times, January 23, 2021 (Black ASL shared online)
• How ASL became a language of resistance, WUNC, March 2024
• The story of ASL