PhD student @BUSargent studying sign language acquistion, EdM in #DeafEd
Joined April 2016
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12 Jun 2024
📢New paper📢 out #OpenAccess with @lieberman_amy (@BUWheelock) and Julie Mitchiner (@GallaudetEDU)!
“Hearing parents as sign language learners: describing and evaluating the ASL skills of parents learning ASL with their deaf children”
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… (1/3)
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We realized that there was little documentation of hearing parents' sign language skills. So we analyzed parents’ expressive and receptive ASL skills and found that parents can achieve intermediate signing skills, which would allow them to communicate with their deaf child (2/3)
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
6 Mar 2024
Sign language AI is dominated by hearing, non-signing researchers. What kinds of systemic biases does this introduce in the field's collective direction?
To find out, read our preprint, with @aashaka_desai @mdemeulder @jahochcam and Annemarie Kocab!
arxiv.org/abs/2403.02563
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
13 Jan 2024
The DeafYES! team (with @RainbowOmma) worked for two years on developing a critical resource not just for hearing nonsigning healthcare professionals, but also for anyone who works with deaf, deafblind, hard-of-hearing and late-deafened people. youtu.be/xr-mlkuTBa4?feature…
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
27 Dec 2023
‼️ Sign, share & SUPPORT this petition
@acludelaware retract the discriminatory lawsuit that denies Deaf children full lang access!
➡️ bit.ly/novicpetition
@aclu_nationwide-lawsuit is rife w/ misleading info & ignores their oral-only approach contributes to lang deprivation.
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31 Aug 2023
This is the best thing! The ideas are flowing for a Mean Girls quotes version
29 Aug 2023
Found a way to combine some of my passions. Allow me to present: infant studies representing each of Taylor Swift's eras ✨🫶💖
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20 Jul 2023
The 'From Icon to Abstraction' workshop is off to a great start at University of Birmingham! 🇬🇧
I'm in my #iconicity era đź’…#FITA2023
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
20 May 2023
After many years, revisions, headaches, and rejections, and headaches with @DeafHistorian the original paper that started the Crip lx movement is finally published.
criticalstudycommunicationdi…
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
15 May 2023
New OA paper "10 things you should know about sign languages" focussing on why their study is important to science. RT to reach a broad audience! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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3 Apr 2023
The PLAY and PAW labs are open for studies--if you are a family with a #deaf #hardofhearing child between 6 months and 6 years of age, connect with us here:
redcap.link/spacecenter
ALT Two young toddlers in a play room. they each have short light hair and wearing a headband. They are holding a toy figurine. A person is holding a plastic round dish and extending it toward them.
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30 Mar 2023
New paper! “Learning a Sign Language does not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language.” This study provides evidence that families with deaf children can pursue ASL without concern of negative impact on spoken English development. 🧵
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…
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30 Mar 2023
It’s important to acknowledge that asking how ASL impacts spoken English inherently privileges spoken English. This is not our intention. We thought this study was worthwhile because spoken language is often a consideration in decisions about what language(s) deaf kids learn.
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30 Mar 2023
Finally, it was such a pleasure working on this with @its_mhiggins, Joshua Mora, @lieberman_amy, @jenniepyers, and @naomicaselli!
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Elana Pontecorvo retweeted
17 Mar 2023
When telling a story, we can use a mix of conventional, dictionary-style signs like "book" and enactment, such as depicting how someone carrys a heavy book
In our second bilingual episode, we talk with @gab_hodge about bringing stories to life in Auslan!
youtube.com/watch?v=U8WJb2kN…
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