Initiatives & Projects

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Initiatives

Visual Language Acquisition and Socialization
Goal: To discover how deaf children learn to read and acquire sign language and other visual language skills.

Interlanguage Mapping, Bilingualism, and Literacy
Goal: To discover how English and ASL exist side-by-side in the minds of deaf and hearing people.

Linguistic and Communicative Forms in a Visual Modality
Goal: To discover how visual languages can best be described with respect to vocabulary, grammar, and culture.

Neurocognitive Foundations of Vision for Lang. and Comm.
Goal: To discover how cognitive skills other than language skills, contribute to language development in visually oriented learners.

Projects

Age-Appropriate ASL Vocabulary

Online collection of ASL vocabulary

Deaf children with sign language disorders

The socialization of visual engagement

Funtional imaging studies of sign language development

Early Literacy: Mothers and Children

Investigation of the development of thinking and reading skills

Study of deaf children's reading and language development

Neural basis of the development of reading in deaf signers

Cross-language lexical activiation in ASL-English Bilinguals

Neural correlates of cross-language lexical activation

Bimodal lexical access from a cross-linguistic perspective

Empirical tests of sentence interlanguage mappings

Self-paced reading

Neural basis ASL fingerspelling and text reading

Phonological processing

Neural basis of single-word reading in bilingual adults

Socio-cultural contexts for bilingual learners

Guessing Game: Word Attack Strategies for Vocabulary Development

Effects of different word parsing strategies on word learning

Behavioral studies of phonological awareness in ASL

Temporal Representations in ASL Description of Events

Spatial depiction and mental schemas

Framework for sign language assessment tests

Situation Construal, Viewpoint and ASL constructions

Use of Depiction analysis in the development of fMRI stimuli

Effect of age of deafness on visual attention

Development of auditory cortical responses

Visually oriented learners' executive function resources

Workgroup on the design of infant studies

A meta-analysis of phonological coding in deaf readers

Investigation of poor and proficient readers

Neural basis of working memory and executive function

The is material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SBE-0541953. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.