Publications From Our Lab

• Gale, Elaine & Creamer, Patrice. Family ASL: Visual communication strategies for optimal language learning [Concurrent presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Gale, Luci, Creamer, Patrice, Best, Suzy, & Gale, Zivia. Promoting family wellbeing: Deaf gain in children’s books [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024.

• Gale, Elaine & Martin, Amber. Family and provider partnership: Guiding values for deaf children’s early language access [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Martin, Amber, & Lograno, Eileen. Family ASL: Monitoring shared attention through deaf eyes for families and professionals [Concurrent presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Rems-Smario, Julie, Hopkins, Karen, & Olson, Stephanie. Deaf adults in early intervention: Preliminary data on parent experiences and perspectives [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024. 

• Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Creamer, Patrice, & Schroeder, Jillian. Family ASL: Research in support of family bimodal bilingual development. International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024.

• Creamer, Patrice & Gale, Elaine. Family ASL: Tips for teaching and learning ASL online [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024. 

• Creamer, Patrice, & Gale, Elaine. Families learning ASL on Zoom: The good, the bad and the beautiful [Concurrent Presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine & Creamer, Patrice. Family ASL: Mini-lessons on visual communication strategies [Concurrent presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Gale, Lucy, Creamer, Patrice, Best, Suzy, & Gale, Zivia. Diversity, equity and inclusion: Deaf gain in children’s books [Poster presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine & Martin, Amber. Guiding values for deaf children’s language access [Poster presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Martin, Amber, & Lograno, Elaine. Family ASL: Researching shared attention through deaf eyes [Poster Presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Gale, Elaine, Rems-Smario, Julie, Hopkins, Karen, & Olson, Stephanie. DHH adult consumer-to-family support services: Exploring parent experiences and perspectives [Poster Presentation]. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah, & Creamer, Patrice. Family bimodal bilingual language development: Longitudinal study of families learning ASL. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI), Denver, Colorado, United States; March, 2024. 

• Creamer, Patrice, & Gale, Elaine. Family ASL Zoom engagement: New era of ASL learning with families. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada; February 2024.

• Gale, Elaine, & Creamer, Patrice. Family ASL: Teaching mini-lessons on visual communication strategies [Poster presentation]. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada; February 2024.

• Gale, Elaine, Gale, Lucile, Creamer, Patrice, & Best, Suzy. Elevate, empower, and engage: Deaf gain in children’s books [Poster presentation]. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada; February 2024.

• Gale, Elaine, & Martin, Amber. Guiding values for elevating deaf children’s early language access [Poster presentation]. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada; February 2024.

• Gale, Elaine, Rems-Smario, Julie, Hopkins, Karen, & Olson, Stephanie. Exploring parent perspectives: When should professionals in early intervention offer families access to deaf adults?. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada; February 2024.

• Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah, & Gale, Elaine. Early development in ASL phonology: A longitudinal study of deaf children with hearing parents. Linguistics Society of America, New York, NY; January 2024.

• Chen Pichler, Deborah, Conte, Mary Cecilia, Creamer, Patrice, Dale-Hench, Martin, Gale, Elaine, Goodwin, Corina, Gu, Shengyun, Kraus, Kaj, Lee, Chui-Yi, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Palmer, Jeffrey, Petersen, Bettie & Shaw, Meghan. Profile of a family’s bimodal bilingual development.pdf [poster presentation]. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; Nov. 2023.

• Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah, & Martin, Amber. Sign Language Acquisition as a Human Right.pdf. International seminar (online); Language Convergence Research Institute, Chosun University, South Korea; July 2023.

• Gale, Elaine & Creamer, Patrice. Family ASL: Visual communication strategies for optimal language learning [Concurrent presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Gale, Elaine, Gale, Laura, Creamer, Patrice, Best, Sarah, & Gale, Zoe. Promoting family wellbeing: Deaf gain in children’s books [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Gale, Elaine & Martin, Amber. Family and provider partnership: Guiding values for deaf children’s early language access [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Gale, Elaine, Martin, Amber, & Lograno, Eileen. Family ASL: Monitoring shared attention through deaf eyes for families and professionals [Concurrent presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Gale, Elaine, Rems-Smario, Julie, Hopkins, Krista, & Olson, Sarah. Deaf adults in early intervention: Preliminary data on parent experiences and perspectives [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Creamer, Patrice & Gale, Elaine. Family ASL: Tips for teaching and learning ASL online [Poster presentation]. International Congress on Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI), Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2023.

• Kraus, Kaj, Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. L2 Signer Accent: Phonological Development in ASL Learners.pdf. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR); Osaka, Japan; Sept. 2022.

• Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Family ASL: An Early Start to Equitable Education for Deaf Children.pdf. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; Originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to June 2022.

• Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gale, Elaine. Understanding diverse contexts for bimodal bilingual development: L1 vs. L2 learning.pdf. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; Originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to June 2022.

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Stuck at beginner level: Hearing parents’ challenges in learning ASL word order.pdf [poster presentation]. 20th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021.

Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Bimodal Bilingualism for an early start to equitable education for deaf children.pdf. 20th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021.

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane. How to support ASL as an L1 for children and L2 for parents: An interactive discussion.pdf. Early Hearing Detection and Intervention; March 2020.

• Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Motivation for L2 ASL learning by hearing parents with deaf children.pdf [poster presentation]. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); November 2019.

• Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gagne, Deanna & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Parents partnering with language researchers.pdf. American Society for Deaf Children Conference; Newark, Delaware; June 2019.

• Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Hearing parents and deaf children learning a sign language together.pdf. 4th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing; Bad Ischl, Austria; June 15, 2018.