Thanks to everyone who attended the Deaf Jam screening on October 4.

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned.

Access News airs at 1 pm on Sundays on KLRU. You can also watch episodes on their website at accessnews.us

Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services information is on their site at dars.state.tx.us/dhhs

Read more about the film and watch clips on the documentary’s website deafjam.org

These materials are available for check out from the Austin Public Library:

DVD
I want to learn sign language
Le pays des sourds = In the land of the deaf
Idioms & phrases in American Sign Language.
Touch the sound [videorecording] : a sound journey with Evelyn Glennie
Through deaf eyes
Slamnation
Healing words
Def poetry. Season 6
Spoken word– the power of poetics
The poetry lounge
Deaf
Deaf yoga for beginners
From silence to sound

Books
Alone in the mainstream : a deaf woman remembers public school / Oliva, Gina A.

Winning sounds like this : a season with the women’s basketball team at Gallaudet, the world’s only
university for the deaf / Wayne Coffey.

In silence : growing up hearing in a deaf world / Sidransky, Ruth.

Deaf culture, our way : anecdotes from the deaf community / Holcomb, Roy K.

Deaf artists in America : colonial to contemporary / Sonnenstrahl, Deborah M.

Deaf proverbs : a proverbial professor’s points to ponder / Glickman, Ken.

Living legends III : –six stories about amazing deaf people / Toole, Darlene

A journey into the deaf-world / Lane, Harlan L.

The world at her fingertips : the story of Helen Keller / Dash, Joan

If a tree falls : a family’s quest to hear and be heard / Rosner, Jennifer.

I see a voice : deafness, language, and the senses–a philosophical history / Rée, Jonathan

No walls of stone : an anthology of literature by deaf and hard of hearing writers / Jill Jepson,

The ocean inside : youth who are deaf and hard of hearing / Libal, Autumn.

My heart glow : Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the birth of American sign language / Emily
Arnold McCully

Can you hear a rainbow? : the story of a deaf boy named Chris / Heelan, Jamee Riggio

Helen Keller : rebellious spirit / Lawlor, Laurie.

Signs across America : a look at regional differences in American Sign Language / Shroyer, Edgar H.

Flight of the Gin Fizz : midlife at 4,500 feet / Kisor, Henry.

American Sign Language / Kent, Deborah.

Signing for kids / Flodin, Mickey.

Train go sorry : inside a deaf world / Cohen, Leah Hager.

Mean little deaf queer : a memoir / Galloway, Terry.

Words in your face : a guided tour through twenty years of the New York City poetry slam / Cristin
O’Keefe Aptowicz.

The spoken word revolution : slam, hip-hop & the poetry of a new generation / Smith, Marc Kell

Poetry slam : the competitive art of performance poetry / Glazner, Gary Mex

Bum rush the page : a Def Poetry Jam / Medina, Tony.