The Compass Program
  • Overview
    • The Coda Experience
    • The Interpreting Profession
  • How to Apply
  • Program Phases
    • Phase 1 >
      • Passport Course >
        • Module 1 >
          • Notable CODAs
        • Module 2
        • Module 3
        • Module 4
        • Module 5
        • Module 6
        • Module 7
    • Phase 2 >
      • Voyage Course
    • Phase 3 >
      • Beacon Course
    • Phase 4 >
      • Bridge Course >
        • Creating a Professional Network
        • Characteristics of Successful Interpreters
        • Curating a Professional Portfolio
        • Applying for Professional Work
        • Power, Privilege, and Oppression
  • Resources
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Resources for Codas


Books based on Coda Experiences

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Paul Preston [author] takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on one hundred and fifty interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States, Mother Father Deaf is rich in anecdote and analysis, remarkable for its insights into a family life normally closed to outsiders.
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This portrait of New York's Lexington School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.
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In this powerful, affecting, and unflinching memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to reconcile her present life—in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.
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Articles about Codas

The Cost of Invisibility: Codas and the Sign Language Interpreting Profession by Amy Williamson
Communication & Parenting Issues in Families with Deaf Parents and Hearing Children by Kerri Clark
These Deaf Parents Talk What It Means to be a CODA and Raising a Hearing Child: "We Know How to Communicate With Our Son" by Samatha Lande
Hearing children of Deaf parents: Gender and birth order in the delegation of the interpreter role in culturally Deaf families by Nomfundo F. Moroe and Victor de Andrade

Websites about Codas

Kodaheart
It was created to respond to frequent requests from Deaf community members for more support and resources for hearing kids of deaf adults and their families.
Click here to learn more. 
Children of Deaf Adults as Third Culture Kids
Click here to learn more. 
CODA International
It is an organization of, by and for Codas.  Take a look at this website to find out more about the organization, become a member, and find out about upcoming conferences.
Click here to learn more. ​
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Member Section of Deaf-Parented Interpreters
The mission of the Deaf Parented Interpreter (DPI) Member Section is to promote greater understanding and awareness of the values of the Deaf Community as well as the skills, dedication and sensibilities that interpreters with deaf parents continue to offer to the interpreting profession.
Click here to learn more.

Videos about Codas

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  • Overview
    • The Coda Experience
    • The Interpreting Profession
  • How to Apply
  • Program Phases
    • Phase 1 >
      • Passport Course >
        • Module 1 >
          • Notable CODAs
        • Module 2
        • Module 3
        • Module 4
        • Module 5
        • Module 6
        • Module 7
    • Phase 2 >
      • Voyage Course
    • Phase 3 >
      • Beacon Course
    • Phase 4 >
      • Bridge Course >
        • Creating a Professional Network
        • Characteristics of Successful Interpreters
        • Curating a Professional Portfolio
        • Applying for Professional Work
        • Power, Privilege, and Oppression
  • Resources
  • HLL Blog
  • Tech FAQs