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Publications - Tom Humphries

Books:

  • Humphries, Tom, Carol Padden & T. J. O'Rourke A Basic Course in American Sign Language, Silver Spring, Md.: TJ Publishers, Inc., 1980.
  • Padden, Carol & Tom Humphries Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, l988.
  • Humphries, Tom & Carol Padden Learning American Sign Language, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992.
  • Humphries, Tom & Carol Padden. Learning American Sign Language, 2nd Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 2004.
  • Humphries, T. & C. Padden. Instructor’s Manual for Learning American Sign Language. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 2004.
  • Padden, C. & T. Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2005
  • Humphries, T., B. Allen, L. Rowe. School in ASL: An Alternate to Traditions in Deaf Education. In preparation. 
  • Humphries, Tom & Padden, Carol Advancing in American Sign Language, In preparation.

Other publications:

  • Humphries, T. "A Rationale for a Culturally Sensitive English Language Program Objective", Teaching English to the Deaf, Fall/Winter, l977. Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet College.
  • Humphries, T., B. Martin, & T. Coye "A Bilingual, Bicultural Approach to Teaching English", Proceedings of the Second Annual National Symposium on Sign Language Research and Teaching, l978. Silver Spring, Md: National Association of the Deaf. 
  • Humphries, T., C. Padden & T. J. O'Rourke A Basic Course in American Sign Language, Silver Spring, Md.: TJ Publishers, Inc., 1980. 
  • Humphries, T. "Planning and Evaluating Culturally Sensitive Post-Secondary Educational Programs for Deaf People", CAPED Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, l983. 
  • Humphries, T. "Functioning Across Cultures: The Deaf Student on the Hearing College Campus", Proceedings, 6th National Conference of the Association of Handicapped Students Service Programs in PostSecondary Education, l984..
  • Humphries, T., B. Martin, & T. Coye "A Bilingual, Bicultural Approach to Teaching English", Proceedings of the Second Annual National Symposium on Sign Language Research and Teaching, l978. Silver Spring, Md: National Association of the Deaf. Reprinted in: American Deaf Culture, An Anthology, S. Wilcox, ed., l989, Silver Spring, Md: Linstok Press..
  • Humphries, Tom "An Introduction to the Culture of Deaf People in the United States: Content Notes & Reference Material for Teachers" in Sign Language Studies, 1991, 72: 209-240. 
  • Padden, C. & T. Humphries Gehorlose: Eine Kultur Bingt Sich zur Sprache. Zemtrum, fur Deutsche Gebardensprache und Kommunkation Gehorloser.. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag. 1991. (German translation.)
  • Humphries, T. & C. Padden Learning American Sign Language, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992. 
  • Humphries, T. "Deaf Culture and Cultures" in Multicultural Issues in Deafness, K. Christensen and G. Delgado, eds., New York: Longman Press, 1993. 
  • Humphries, T. “On Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self” in Culturally Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons, N. Glickman and M. Harvey, eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 
  • Padden, C. & T. Humphries, “A Changing Consciousness”, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1988. Reprinted in American Voices: Multicultural Literacy and Critical Thinking, D. LaGuardia & H. Guth, Eds. London, UK: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1996. 
  • Humphries, T. & MacDougall, F. "Chaining" and other links: making connections between American Sign Language and English in two types of school settings", Visual Anthropology Review, 15:2, Fall/Winter 1999/2000. 
  • Humphries, T. “On Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self” in Culturally Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons, N. Glickman and M. Harvey, eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Reprinted in Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook, Lois Bragg, Ed. New York: New York University Press. 2001. 
  • Padden, C. & T. Humphries. Deaf in America: Vocies from a Culture. Tokyo, Japan: Sho-bun-sha Publishing. 2004. (Japanese translation.)
  • Humphries, T. “The modern Deaf self: Indigenous practices and educational imperatives”. In Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives, Brenda Bruggeman, Ed., Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press. 2004.
  • Humphries, T. “Talking culture and culture talking” In Sightings, Dirksen Bauman, Ed. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. In press.
  • Allen, B. & T. Humphries. “A Collaborative partnership: An Investigation of the Effects of Implementation of Bilingual Cultural Pedagogy and Authentic Assessment on Deaf Children’s Literacy”. In preparation. 

Recent papers and presentations:

  • "Deaf People in College: The Culture Factor", invited speaker, California State Universities Systemwide Conference, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Programs, CSU-Sacramento, October, 1988.
  • "Deaf in America; Voices from a Culture", The Third International Workshop for Deaf Researchers, Hamburg, Germany, July 1989.
  • "Silenced Voices: Deaf in America", invited speaker, California State University, San Luis Obispo, September, 1989.
  • "Notions of Integration in Bilingual Education for Deaf People", Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, San Francisco, March, 1990.
  • "Teaching the Culture of Deaf People: Course Notes and References", invited speaker, California Association of Teachers of Sign, Pacific Grove, Ca., May, 1990.
  • "Interpreting Culture", invited speaker, Gallaudet University Deaf Culture lecture series, Washington, D.C., November, 1990.
  • "Deaf Culture and Cultures", invited speaker, Australia and New Zealand Council of Educators of the Deaf, Surfers' Paradise, Queensland, Australia, January, 1991.
  • "Culture: Invention and Ideology", invited speaker, NCPTSLI Lecture Series, California State University-Northridge, April, 1991
  • "Putting It All Together: A Cultural Perspective of Deafness in the l990's", keynote address, American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, Chicago, May, 1991.
  • "Possible Lives: A Theory of Culture and Deaf Children", invited speaker, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, March, l992.
  • “Pathways to Community”, keynote speaker, Statewide Conference on Childhood Deafness, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, June, l993.
  • “Studying Deaf Cultures”, International Deaf Researchers’ Workshop, Castbergaard, Denmark, July, 1993.
  • "The Role of Language Explanation in the Natural Approach", California American Sign Language Teachers' Association, California State University, Northridge, October, 1996.
  • "A Bilingual, Multicultural Approach to Deaf Education: Training ASL-English Bilingual Teachers", California Association of Bilingual Educators, February, 1997.
  • “Characteristics of Language Use in Teacher Talk”, invited speaker American Anthropological Association, November, 1997.
  • "Coming to Voice", invited speaker, Gallaudet University, August, 1997
  • “Adding Links to the Chain”, California Association of Bilingual Educators, February, 1998
  • “Deaf and Hearing Relationships”, invited speaker, El Camino College, April, 1998.
  • “The Interaction of ASL and English in Teacher Talk”, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, July, 1999.
  • “The Modern Deaf Self and the Discourse of Culture”, invited speaker, Gallaudet University, August, 1999.
  • Keynote presentation: Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery for Deaf People Conference, May 2000.
  • "Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language", invited workshop and statewide telecast, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, March 2000.
  • Keynote presentation: Boys' Town conference on early children deafness, Creighton University, October, 2000.
  • "Private to public expressions of culture: reorganizing deaf education", invited speaker, American Anthropological Association, November 2000.
  • “Reorganizing deaf education”, invited week-long seminar, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2001.
  • “Talking culture, culture talking”, invited speaker, Deaf Studies Think Tank, Gallaudet University, July 2002
  • “Meeting the multi-language needs of deaf and hard of hearing children through bilingual teacher training: a California experimental program”, Association of College Educators-Deaf and Hard of Hearing, February, 2003.
  • “Talking culture or culture talking: Private to public expressions of culture”, invited speaker, lecture series, California State University, Northridge. May, 2003
  • “Talking culture: Deaf culture, audism and other strange talk in the late 20th century”, Deaf Researchers and Academics Conference, Washington, DC. February, 2004.
  • “An alternative approach to classroom practice: A California experimental program”, American Education Research Association”, San Diego. April 2004.