SES 204: Resources on American Sign Language and Cochlear Implants
For help with research, contact Mary Krautter,
Reference and Instructional Services, Jackson Library atmmkrautt@uncg.edu
or 336-256-0274
Databases: collections of articles and other resources
PubMed
- Essential for medical aspects of hearing and cochlear implants
- Indexes and abstracts articles from several thousand medical, health,
and communication disorders journals
- Dates of coverage: 1953 +
LLBA:
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Strong resource for linguistic aspects of sign language as well as behavior
and culture related to language
- Abstracts books, technical reports, and dissertations as well as articles
in approximately 2,000 journals
- Selected topics: language behavior, linguistics (including psycholinguistics,
phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics,) nonverbal communication,
phonetics, hearing and speech physiology and pathology (communication disorders)
- Dates of coverage: 1973 +
Communication
& Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
- Cultural and linguistic aspects of sign language
- Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in several hundred journals
in the fields of human communication, mass media, and communication disorders
- Full text of articles from over 200 journals including
several communication disorders journals
- Dates of coverage: 1915 +
PsycINFO
- Duplicates titles in other databases to some extent but also covers psychology
journals and is valuable for older coverage
- Indexes over a thousand journals in psychology and related disciplines
including communication disorders
- Also indexes books and dissertations
- Dates of coverage: 1872+
Sociological
Abstracts
- Information on social groups and social connections; some information
on deaf culture
- Abstracts of articles from over 2500 journals plus conference papers,
dissertations, book reviews, and books
- Content: all aspects of sociology including community development, culture
and social structure, demography, human biology, environmental interactions,
family and social welfare, health and medicine, law, religion, science,
social psychology, group interactions, welfare services, and women's studies
- Dates of coverage: 1963+
Education
Index
- Very useful for education of the deaf, residential schools, and issues of inclusion and mainstreaming.
- Searches Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective simultaneously.
- Indexes almost 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as some books
- Strong on educational and psychological topics including institutions
of all levels, educational administration, child development, and counseling
- 1929 to present; abstracts since 1994; full text since 1996
ERIC
- Most widely used educaton database with a mix of scholarly and practitioner
and curriculum information
- Sample topics: education of the deaf, residential schools, inclusion and
mainstreaming issues, parent-school relationships, child discipline, day
care, etc.
- Some full text items for 750+ education and education-related journals
(identified by EJ numbers)
- Thousands of full-text research and technical reports, school system reports,
conference papers,etc. (identified by ED numbers. Some are online but older
documents are on microfiche in storage)
MasterFILE
Premier
- Popular magazines (along with some scholarly) which give information on
societal attitudes, popular trends, anecdotal accounts on cochlear implants
and deaf culture
- Full text for a few thousand general reference, business, consumer health,
general science, and multi-cultural periodicals plus indexing for a few
thousand other journals
- Indexes over a couple thousand magazines and journals
- Dates of coverage: 1975+
LexisNexis
Academic (news, articles, legal resources,
companies)
- Most useful for newspaper articles and transcripts of news programs which give information on societal attitudes, popular trends, anecdotal accounts on cochlear implants and deaf culture.
- Full text articles from thousands of domestic and international newspapers,
law reviews, magazines, transcripts of radio and television programs, newsletters,
and other sources.
- How to cite this database in APA Style
Journal Finder
Journal
Finder (Also a link on the Libraries home page)
- Enter the journal name (not the article title) such as Child Development
in the box and press the Enter key or click Search
- If the title appears, click on the icon for the method of access you want
- Click on the computer icon to find full text online access
to some articles
- The database(s) and dates for full text are displayed
- Choose a database and follow any instructions for finding specific
journal titles
- Click on the book icon to locate print issues of the journal
in the Library
- The record shown will provide the holdings and location of the
journal
- Older years of journals are either bound and shelved by call number
with the book collection in the stacks or are on microfilm
- Current issues are available in the Reading Room on 1st Floor
Main
- Click on the envelope icon for mail or electronic delivery
of the article
- Click on the car icon to check whether other libraries own
this title
If the article you want isn't available in the database you are using, check
to see if the library has access to it by looking for this link: Check
for full text availability of this item.
Clicking this link will open a new window and search for the journal in Journal
Finder, the Libraries' guide to the magazines, journals and other periodicals
available to you through us.
Library Catalogs
Library
Catalog - Catalog of materials in UNCG University
Libraries – use to find books, videos and more. 
WorldCat
A catalog for the holdings of most academic and public libraries primarily
in the US and some foreign countries as well. Includes books, manuscripts,
journals, newspapers, films, videos, and maps in print, microform, and
electronic format. Does not index individual periodical articles.
Websites
-
Gallaudet
University Library’s Deaf Research Guide
Links to useful resources on any research related to deafness, although
some of the web pages are dated. NOTE: you won’t
be able to get to the databases they list through their website, because
of restrictions, but if you go to the UNCG website, we have access to
these. They have pathfinders (research guides) on specific topics
such as “deaf parents of hearing children” but many of these
are older.
-
National Association of the Deaf
- has developed a position
statement and other
information on cochlear implants.
- The
Silent Worker
The Silent Worker was a popular national newspaper among the deaf population
of the United States during the end of the 1890's through the end of the
first quarter of the 20th century. Originally known as the Deaf Mute Times,
it was first published in February 1888 and renamed The Silent Worker on
September 27 of the same year. The New Jersey School for the Deaf continued
its publication monthly, except for July, August, and periodically September
until it ceased in June 1929. Deaf American authors wrote almost all articles,
although occasional contributions by deaf individuals from other countries
were also printed. Gallaudet University Archives has converted their collection
of The Silent Worker from 1888 to 1929 into digital format, and made it
available on the World Wide Web for public research
- American Society for
Deaf Children has a particularly good list of links to other organizations
and useful information.
Author: Mary Krautter
Maintained by: Hannah Winkler
