Just out! New paper w/ Emily Saunders showing that morphological awareness has a stronger relationship with reading comprehension for deaf than hearing readers, underscoring the potential for morphological instruction to support reading development in deaf students.
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Also, if a woman EVER showed up in the Oval Office with a baseball hat, tshirt and a child in tow, she would be mercilessly crucified.
I hate everything.
ASL / DHH researchers and educators: Has anyone administered the PPVT in ASL before? What approaches did you take for signing certain words to ensure consistency across examinees? Did you ever use fingerspelling for non-lexicalized words? Anything else I should know? #deafsky #deafeducation
Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?
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An anonymous citizen messaged me with a question:
What is the opposite of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion?
His response:
Monopoly-Inequity-Exclusion (MIE)
(or MIE-inaccessibility (MIEI) if you include accessibility, DEIA)
As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
Here are three (so far) identified programs specializing in deaf services that are directly impacted by temporary funding freezes:
1) Training Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf and Deaf-Blind
2) Research Related to Deafness & Communication Disorders
3) National Deaf Services Line
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
I would not be a professor if not for NSF funding I received from undergrad through dissertation. They're trying to starve us out of existence. Vance called professors "the enemy".
It's also wasteful and cruel. They're playing not just with the future of science, but also with thousands of jobs.
Working w/ a reporter on the consequences of the NIH/NSF freezes (e.g., training pipelines, how grants support clinical time for trials)
If you've had a grant impacted, some organizational perspective (e.g., in APPIC leadership/DCT role) + are willing to share your experience please shoot me a DM
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
For those outside of academia, the Dept. Education thing is extraordinary interference.
I am not allowed to accept grant funding if the sponsor gets a say over what I publish. That's important. It protects me from outside pressure to tank results that are politically or financially inconvenient.
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
If only we a had a 900 page document in our hands a year ago that said they were going to do this!
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
They're also trying to humiliate and demoralize scientists and researchers. These grant proposals can take years to develop. Peoples' jobs depend on it. The review process also takes many hours and is performed primarily as a service to the community. And now everybody involved feels like an idiot.
I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers
The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...
In #accessibility, personal agency, as well as lived experience and situational factors are critical. I have some thoughts about framing access within these concepts, as a researcher, teacher, and as a deaf person with lived experience growing up in a place & time where access was nonexistent. 1/
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"Recruiting Participants!" flyer for an EEG neuroscience study at Gallaudet University. How does using technology change our brains and help us learn? Seeking deaf or hard-of-hearing adults, fluent in ASL, over 18, and right-handed. Participants will play a science game using technology for 2 hours and 15 minutes and receive $25 per hour. The flyer includes contact information, a QR code, and the Action & Brain Lab logo. Approved by Gallaudet University IRB. There is also an email address listed if you have any questions or want to conact us: action.brain.lab@gallaudet.edu .
Recruiting DHH participants at Gallaudet! Learn science using technology, $65 for ~2 hours of participation. Sign-up link: tinyurl.com/tech2learnst...
We are building a platform for collecting and labelling sign language data, and are looking for beta testers. DM me if you're interested in using it.
Carly Leannah is a long brown-haired white woman with a conference nametag. She is standing for the camera. Behind her is a sunset view of the Vieux-Port. There are historic buildings behind her on the water.
Carly, a brown-haired white woman, is standing in front of her conference poster. It is titled 'Investigating embodied cognition in deaf American Sign Language users: EEG and virtual reality for STEM education.' There are sections on the poster along with figures. The sections are Introduction, Objectives, Study Design, Planned Analyses, and Broader Impacts.
Marseille is known for many things, including its street art and (maybe unfortunate for many) graffiti. This is a picture that shows three adjacent buildings of varying heights. The left building is mostly covered in graffiti, the center building is covered in an intentional mural, and the right building has nothing. Tree leaves frame the picture.
A top-down photo of Carly's hand holding macarons, a French cookie delicacy. Carly's black boots are in the background, standing on a stone pathway.
Also, I still cannot get over how much I enjoyed Marseille and South of France, including the beautiful venue view of the Le Vieux Port from the SNL conference venue. A fun, memorable way to check France off my bucket list. Sharing some pictures of my trip!
My sandbox diss project poster from last week's Neurobio of Langauge conference: 'Investigating embodied cognition in deaf ASL users: EEG and VR for STEM education.' We aim to compare two different types of learning experiences, particularly how 3D language users learn/embody concepts in 3D space.
Please encourage any psych, cog, and/or neuroscience undergrads wanting an intensive, immersive, supportive, and *paid* summer research experience to apply! WashU’s ENDURE program is world class, and my lab would be delighted to support a mentored research project 🙂
endure.wustl.edu/apply/
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