The Journal Club 'Deaf children and young people'

Held on Wednesday, 9th March 2022

Content

The Journal Club is aimed at deaf and hearing professionals who are interested in deafness, with education and early years the primary focus. You will be based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. You may be a Masters or PhD student, or a professional with a postgraduate qualification, working with deaf children or a research student in a related field interested in further study. Your interests might be deaf education, deaf children, speech and language therapy, audiology, and/or Deaf Studies.

This Journal Club will meet once or twice a term. Each session will have two leaders who will facilitate the discussions in the main room and break out groups. Reading articles will either be articles in Deafness & Education International or otherwise open access. This was the third meeting of the Journal Club after our first meeting in June 2021. Details of the reading are below. All attendees were required to read the article in advance.

Hoffmeister, Robert; Henner, Jon; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Novogrodsky, Rama. (2022) Deaf Children's ASL Vocabulary and ASL Syntax Knowledge Supports English Knowledge. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 37–47.

Prompt Questions (docx)
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Aims:

Provide a safe and respected space for professionals with less experience to enhance their critical evaluation skills.
Provide a platform to discuss what the research means to our practice and how it can impact our work.
Develop a network of research-active or research-engaged peers to discuss current and future research ideas in deafness, from birth to adulthood.

Target Audience

Session leader

Patrick Rosenburg is a qualified deaf teacher of the deaf working at University College London as a post doctoral researcher. He is interested in understanding more about the interdependent relationship between signed language and spoken language through different modalities. Patrick is currently funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to continue his studies on language comprehension skills in deaf children. He will be working on translating an American Sign Language (ASL) assessment task that measures deaf children's comprehension skills in ASL into British Sign Language (BSL).

Future sessions

Themes will be guided by the leaders for those sessions. We will draw leaders from recent PhD graduates and PhD students studying in these areas as well as advanced practitioners.

Interested in being a leader?

Have you completed and currently undertaking a deaf education specific topic and keen to lead a session? Please do contact Rachel for an informal discussion: rachel.oneill@ed.ac.uk