Deaf studies

Deaf Studies are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the deaf social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology. The Deaf studies comprise the scientific study of the deaf-related aspects of the world.^[1]

Deaf studies includes the study of:

• Deaf culture
• Deaf people
• Sign language

University-based deaf studies centers

• United States
  • Masters offered
    • Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
    • National Center on Deafness, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California
  • Bachelors offered
    • California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
    • Boston University, Boston, MA
    • Lamar University, Lamar, TX (offers hybrid Deaf Education/Deaf Studies doctorates)
    • Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
  • State Certifications
    • Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas (offers Masters in Deaf Education)
  • Associate in Arts offered
    • Towson University, Towson, Maryland
    • College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
    • Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
• United Kingdom
  • University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, England
  • Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol
• New Zealand
  • Victoria University of Wellington
• The Netherlands
  • Visual Language, Signs and Gestures, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

National and transnational Deaf studies centers

• New Zealand
  • Kelston Deaf Education Centre
• Philippines
  • School_of_Deaf_Education_and_Applied_Studies, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila

Deaf studies associations

• United States
  • CSUN Deaf Studies Association, Northridge, California
• United Kingdom
  • The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf

Deaf-related major projects

• India
  • Deafchild India

See also

• American Annals of the Deaf
• Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
• Deaf Bibliography for a categorised list of publications in the field since 1984
• Deafhood

References