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Project Updates: Winter 2025
Project Updates: Winter 2025
Family ASL Presentations at the SIGN10 Conference
Family ASL Presentations at the SIGN10 Conference
Family ASL: Deaf Children and Hearing Parents Learning ASL Together - Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler and Elaine Gale
Language input for Deaf infants: What do Deaf babies need and how can parents provide it? - Elaine Gale, Patrice Creamer and Shane Blau
You can find out more about this conference on their website!
You can find more information about our research here.
**The conference is held entirely in International Sign Language. This year it is being held in Trinidad and Tobago!**
Boston University Conference on Language Development Keynote Presentation
Boston University Conference on Language Development Keynote Presentation
Lillo-Martin_BUCLD_Keynote_2024_241108_to-share-compressed.pdfResources and Research
Resources and Research
Signs of the Season
Signs of the Season
BELIEVE-1963.mp4💫🧚🏾♂️ BELIEVE 🧚🏾♂️💫
💫🧚🏾♂️ BELIEVE 🧚🏾♂️💫
Resource website for FREE bilingual bimodal videobooks
Click here to visit the RISE website for more information.
Goal of the RISE project:
RISE aims to promote language acquisition and early literacy skills for deaf children by providing bimodal-bilingual video books.
Deaf Gain What?!
Deaf Gain What?! Is a brilliant storybook app featured in both American Sign Language and English!
Developed by our very own Elaine Gale and Patrice Creamer!
click here to download the app
Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education
Click here to visit the 2024 Issue of Odyssey
PSSSTT- Our researchers have an article in this issue on page 54!
Purpose of this Issue:
The 2024 edition of Odyssey emphasizes how crucial it is to create environments rich in language for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. These settings play a key role in their academic and social-emotional development. Such environments seen as the "least restrictive," give students the best chances to communicate and develop their language skills. This issue contains 14 articles written by 30 authors. The topics cover a wide range. Some share personal accounts of how access to language leads to success in school. Others discuss how schools and community groups can work together to help students. The challenges military families face in meeting their children's educational needs are also highlighted in this issue. The issue looks at ways to build language and literacy skills at home and in class. It talks about tools like the ASL at Home curriculum for parents and teachers. It also explains how to include language and literacy goals in a child's Individualized Education Program (IEP).
ASL Specialist Corner
ASL Specialist Corner
Patrice Creamer, ASL Specialist
Patrice Creamer, ASL Specialist
Patrice Creamer is currently the ASL Specialist for the Hunter College consortium on a research project titled Family ASL: Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition by Deaf Children of Hearing Parents. The research project is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also a boar member of the Lexington School for the Deaf and heads the education committee.
Ms. Creamer is a native ASL signer. She has many years of experience as a researcher in deaf-related research including developing bilingual (ASL/English) survey instruments and leading focus groups. She is well versed in ASL variations and how to communicate with individuals with different levels of ASL fluency.
Ms. Creamer has served as project director and administrator on several Deaf research projects at the National Developmental & Research Institute for over 10 years.
Clips and Photos from FASL Families
Clips and Photos from FASL Families
LACY -Apple- cropped.mp4Reading books during ASL session
"How do you sign it? Apple"
JOSH-number & color.mp4Playing games with Patrice
"Blue number 5. Yes!"
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