Gallaudet University – the first in the word university offering lectures in sign language

World Map of Sign Language Research

Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser – Hamburg (Germany) unit concerned with sign linguistics

Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre – London (Great Britain) unit dealing with sign linguistics

Sign Language Research Group, Radboud Universiteit – Nijmegen department (Netherlands) working on sign linguistics

Sign Language Research Laboratory – Haifa unit (Israel) practising sign linguistics

Sign Language Linguistics Society (SLLS) – international society of linguists concerned with sign languages