Correspondence and other material related to the Nippon Foundation’s sponsorship of the WDL program, including copies of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Nippon Foundation and Gallaudet that established WDL. Also includes some material on foundation representatives’ visits to the Gallaudet campus, as well as some items related to other deaf groups.

An incomplete collection of agendas, minutes, reports, and correspondence related to the WDL steering committee, including the correspondence of Dr. Kinner and Dr. Reginald Redding of Gallaudet, who served as the WDL’s program administrator.

This series also includes some steering committee records on the Thailand and South Africa projects; see series 3 and 4 for more on these.