Additional Products and Publications

The Clerc Center offers several publications available for downloading. This page lists each publication, categorized by type, and provides links to the web page or the PDF file of the publication.

Sharing Ideas

The “Sharing Ideas” series comprises working or occasional papers of interest to parents and professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing children. Works in the series are often prepared for a specific ‘occasion’ and include papers, presentations, or final reports that address a need in the field or contribute to the growing body of knowledge about educating deaf and hard of hearing children. The intent of the series is to act as a clearinghouse for sharing information from a number of sources.

• A First Language: Whose Choice Is It? (PDF) by Shawn Neal Mahshie
• Becoming Bilingual (PDF) by Lynne Erting and Judy Pfau
• Cochlear Implants and Sign Language: Putting It All Together (Identifying Practices for Educational Settings) Conference Proceedings
• Community Building: A Positive Approach to Discipline in Schools (PDF) by Katherine A. Jankowski
• Family-School Relationships: Concepts and Premises (PDF) by Barbara Bodner-Johnson, Ph.D. and Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, Ph.D.
• Planning for Literacy Instruction (PDF) by Martha French
• Speechreading in Context: A Guide for Practice in Everyday Settings (PDF) by James Lee
• Student Life in the New Millennium: Empowering Education for Deaf Students (PDF) by Katherine A. Jankowski
• Transition Planning and Programming: Empowerment Through Partnership (PDF) by Marita Danek and Howard Busby
• Where Does Speech Fit In? Spoken English in a Bilingual Context (PDF) by Sharon Graney

Sharing Results

The "Sharing Results" series comprises occasional papers that describe the results of work undertaken by the Clerc Center. This series includes three kinds of papers:

1. Descriptions of critical needs and the processes used to identify those needs
2. Descriptions of the results of collaborations between the Clerc Center and other schools and programs to develop and implement innovative approaches to some of the persistent challenges of these areas
3. Extensive descriptions of the evaluation of selected innovations to provide information to help program planners determine whether an innovation would be appropriate for their program

• Shared Reading Project: Evaluating Implementation Processes and Family Outcomes -Executive Summary (PDF) by Linda Delk and Lisa Weidekamp (The full version of this paper is available as a print document.)
• We are Equal Partners: Recommended Practices for Involving Families in Their Child's Educational Program by Margaret Hallau
• A Look at the Decisions Hispanic Families Make After the Diagnosis of Deafness (PDF) by Annie Steinberg, Lisa Bain, Yuelin Li, Louise Montoya, and Vivian Ruperto of the Children's Seashore House at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Un estudio sobre las decisiones que toman las familias hispanas espués de un diagnóstico de sordera (PDF) by Annie Steinberg, Lisa Bain, Yuelin Li, Louise Montoya, y Vivian Ruperto of the Children's Seashore House at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

KidsWorld Deaf Net

These documents were developed as part of KidsWorld Deaf Net (KWDN), a national communication network sponsored by the Clerc Center at Gallaudet University with support from the AT&T Foundation.

• Cochlear Implants: Navigating a Forest of Information...One Tree at a Time: The Cochlear Implant Education Center is currently updating "Cochlear Implants: Navigating a Forest of Information....One Tree at a Time." Check back later this fall to see this revised resource.
• Implantes cocleares: Recorriendo un bosque de información... un árbol por vez por Debra Nussbaum. Traducido por Clerc Center Multicultural Student Services. Check back this fall to see this revised resource.
• Early Beginnings for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children:Myths and Facts of Early Intervention and Guidelines for Effective Services by Marilyn Sass-Lehrer
• A Good Start: Suggestions for Visual Conversations with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Babies and Toddlers by Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
• Keys to English Print: Phonics, Signs, Cued Speech, Fingerspelling, and Other Learning Strategies by multiple authors. As published in Odyssey, Fall 2003