Resources
Documentaries
- Passport Without A Country (1992; Australia)
- Mother Father Deaf (2019; Ireland). Access via Amazon rental or purchase.
- Glittering hands (2019; South Korea). Rental for $5 (US) via Vimeo
Videos
- Abababa: My Father Explains Deaf Heart (Posted 2015)
- Amy Williamson - Finding the Way Home: Heritage Language Signers as Guides (2016)
- Anna Witter-Merithew - Stepping Out of the Shadows of Invisibility (2014)
- Caregiving & Interpreting for a Deaf Parent (2016)
- Coda Identity and the Interpreter Education Experience (2016)
- Coda Identity: Source-Carrier Dynamics - Part 1; Part 3 (2015)
- Coda Mothers with Two Deaf Kids (2018)
- CODAs: Jaymes and Keegan's Story (2019)
- CODAs: Kalista and Calvin's Story (2019)
- CODAs: Mary Jane's (MJ) Story (2019)
- Coda Pride (2014)
- CODA - The Coda Experience (2016)
- Future Educators in the Field of Sign Language Interpreting (2015)
- Growing Up Coda (2019)
- Interpreting Conundrum: ASL & English Communication Norms (2017)
- Welcome to Coda International (2016)
Websites
Books
- Bishop, M., & Hicks, S. (Eds.) (2008). Hearing, Mother Father Deaf: Hearing People in Deaf Families.
- Preston, P. (1994). Mother Father Deaf: Living between Sound and Silence.
- Solomon, A. (2012). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- Sorensen, D. (2019). Between Two Worlds: My life as a child of deaf adults.
- West, D. (2012). Signs of Hope: Deafhearing Family Life
Academic Research
- Adams, S. (2008) Characteristics of the Coda Experience in 21st Century contemporary culture.
- Burge, J. (September, 2018). Children of Deaf Adults: Interpreting Identity. [Master's thesis]
- Crosby-Martin, A. (May, 2018). The evolution of Coda interpreters. [Master's thesis]
- Heffernan, G. & Nixon, E. (October, 2023). Experiences of Hearing Children of Deaf Parents in Ireland. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. (Click here)
- Hensley, J.S., Caselli, N., Cappola, M., Gagne, D., Hoffmeister, R., Palmer, J., Pyers, J., Quadros, R., Reynolds, & W. Singleton, J. (June, 2016). Codas Doing Research: A Panel Discussion. Proceedings from a 2016 panel of Coda researchers at Austin, Texas, US.
- Isakson, S.K. (March, 2016). Heritage signers: language profile questionnaire. [Master's thesis]
- Mellett, E. (2016). Cochlear implants and Codas: The impact of technology on a community. [Master's thesis]
- Tripp, E. (2023). Coda Identity - Why Our Stories are Important: A Qualitative Look at the Personal Narratives of Adult Children of Deaf Adults. Honors Capstone. Gallaudet University.
- Voss, R. (May, 2019). Codas in leadership: An exploration of emic perceptions within the American Deaf community. [Master's thesis]
- Willamson, A. (June, 2015). Heritage learner to professional interpreter: who are deaf-parented interpreters and how do they achieve professional status? [Master's thesis]
- Wood, B.A. (August, 2016). Survey of hearing children with deaf parents regarding their role as sociolinguistic agents. [Dissertation]
Linguistics & Language Attitudes
- Brentari, D., & Coppola, M. (2013). What sign language creation teaches us about language. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4(2), 201-211. (Click here)
- Caselli, N. K., & Cohen-Goldberg, A. M. (2014). Lexical access in sign language: a computational model. (Click here)
- Emmorey, K., Luk, G., Pyers, J. E., & Bialystok, E. (2008). The source of enhanced cognitive control in bilinguals evidence from bimodal bilinguals. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1201-1206. (Click here)
- Kanto, L., Huttunen, K., & Laakso, M. L. (2013). Relationship between the linguistic environments and early bilingual language development of hearing children in Deaf-parented families. Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, 18(2), 242-260. (Click here)
- Palmer, J.L. (2015). ASL Word Order Development in Bimodal Bilingual Children: Early syntax of hearing and cochlear-implanted Deaf children from signing families. [Dissertation Preview]
- Pichler, D. C., Lillo-Martin, D., Palmer, J.L.. (2018). A Short Introduction to Heritage Signers. Sign Language Studies, Volume 18, Number 3, Spring 2018, pp. 309-327 (Click here)
- Pizer, G., Walters, K., & Meier, R. P. (2012). “We communicated that way for a reason”: Language practices and language ideologies among hearing adults whose parents are deaf. Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, ens031. (Click here)
- Pyers, J. E., & Emmorey, K. (2008). The face of bimodal bilingualism grammatical markers in American Sign Language are produced when bilinguals speak to English monolinguals. Psychological Science, 19(6), 531-535. (Click here)
- Pyers, J. E., Gollan, T. H., & Emmorey, K. (2009). Bimodal bilinguals reveal the source of tip-of-the-tongue states. Cognition, 112(2), 323-329. (Click here)
Articles
- Colonomus, B. (2013). Sign Language Interpreters and the Quest for a Deaf Heart.
- Davis, L.J. (2007). Deafness and the Riddle of Identity.
- Frank, A. (2019). The Identity Development of the Only Hearing Child in an All-Deaf Family. JADARA.
- Hadjikakou, K., et al. (2009). The Experiences of Cypriot Hearing Adults with Deaf Parents in Family, School, and Society. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
- Hafer, S. (2018). Sign Language Interpreters: Recognizing Your Place in the Deaf Community.
- Hoffmeister, R. (2008). Border crossings by hearing children of deaf parents: The lost history of codas. In H. L. Bauman (Ed.), Open your eyes: Deaf studies talking (pp. 189-215). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
- Jannusch, C. (2023). CODAs. (Click here)
- Napier, J. (2019). Is there disruption in the sign language interpreting profession?
- Preston, P. (1995). Mother father Deaf: The heritage of difference.
- Read, J. (2018). Codas: Can we still call the interpreting profession home?
- Singleton & Tittle (2000). Deaf Parents and Their Hearing Children.
- Williamson (2012). The Cost of Invisibility: Codas and the Sign Language Interpreting Profession.
- Williamson (2015). Deaf-parented Interpreters: A challenge to the status quo in sign language interpreter education?