UConn Study of Language and Math

05/30/2024

✨ Calling all SLPs! ✨

We are seeking speech-language pathologists in the United States to participate in an online research study exploring clinical training and skills for working with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients.

See if you qualify by completing the screener at this link: tiny.utk.edu/SLP_Study_Screener

Please share this with other SLPs, thanks!!

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04/18/2024

SignFest 2024!

Researchers & practitioners in signed languages,
join us to share & learn! ️

May 11th, 10AM-4PM | UCONN Hartford

➡️ Register & learn more: link to SignFest website:

Let us know if you will be attending. Click below to register for FREE.

03/28/2024

Huge congratulations to Kristin Walker on her first first-authored publication!

We found that early access to language, either signed or spoken, supported children’s ability to convert numbers and quantities from one format to another, an ability that is critical for them to learn arithmetic and mathematics.

https://t.co/UvnpZi9hKz

UConn Kids in Developmental Science

03/12/2024

H/t Mick Posner

Game changer for everyone, especially the deaf community:

Apple Podcasts now has transcripts for all the shows that are available through the app.

Make sure your iOS is updated to version 17.4. Pick any podcast and you can access its transcript by scrolling past the introductory information.

I don’t know about you but this really opens up a whole new world of information. Plus if you’re not in the mood to listen to an entire show, you can simply read through the text.

🙌🙌🙌

03/03/2024

While at the organized by the School of STAMP at Gallaudet, where 200+ people from all over the world are sharing their work in this area, a hearing colleague sent me a link to NPR Morning Edition's piece on ASL STEM signs. IT HAS NO TRANSCRIPT. took time to share their work with you & now they must wait for access to your reporting?!?! Do better NPR!

We are excited to welcome everyone who is interested in STEM sign language lexicons - deaf and hard of hearing students who are majoring in STEM, STEM

03/02/2024

Dochka Veleva & Alexander Ivanov: “Building Bridges for Deaf Leaders of Tomorrow" led by Deaf educators & Fulbright scholars at integrating Bulgarian SL (BGSL) into Deaf STEM education in Bulgaria.

11/17/2021

The results for Corina Goodwin, Emily Carrigan, Kristin Walker, and Marie Coppola's paper "Language not auditory experience is related to parent-reported executive functioning in preschool-aged deaf and hard-of-hearing children" showed that there is no difference between kids exposed to language at birth, whether that language was spoken or signed. But children who had delayed exposure to language did tend to have more trouble with executive functioning.

Watch this short video below about the results and findings from this paper!

11/10/2021

Corina Goodwin, Emily Carrigan, Kristin Walker, and Marie Coppola's paper "Language not auditory experience is related to parent-reported executive functioning in preschool-aged deaf and hard-of-hearing children" was published in Child Development.

This study used the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) as a parent-reported measure of preschool-aged children's executive function, and investigated the role of language and auditory experience within this measure.

Click the link below to read the paper!

Much research has found disrupted executive functioning (EF) in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children; while some theories emphasize the role of auditory deprivation, others posit delayed language ...

09/24/2021

We invite submissions for presentations and posters to be presented at ICSLA 4. Abstracts and presentations must use one of the official conference languages: American Sign Language (ASL), International Sign (IS), and English. We encourage presentations in ASL or IS. Call for Papers Check out our...

12/11/2020

We are very excited to share a preprint of Dr. Marie Coppola’s chapters in the Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas volume! Here you can read the introduction and two chapters where she discusses gestures, homesign systems, and cultural and social factors driving lexical conventionalization