Funding

• Externally funded projects (25 projects)
• Internally funded projects (32 projects)
• Projects with no funding source listed (24 projects)

Note: this page is still in a very rough draft form. Projects that are both internally and externally funded will be listed twice.

Externally funded projects

(25 projects)

• 'Deaf Studies Digital Journal'
• Assessing the effectiveness of the Anacostia River tunnel in reduction of eutrophication
• Bilingual ASL/English storybook apps for children
• Bimodal Bilingual Code-blending: Language Synthesis
• Cochlear implants and the brain: The biological basis for language and cognition in infants, children, and adults with cochlear implants
• Cognitive, Social and Affective Components of Academic Outcomes
• Effectiveness of mentoring in science research
• Family ASL: Bimodal bilingual acquisition by deaf children of hearing parents
• Impact of Language Experience on Early Numerical Cognition
• Merging Deaf Talent with 21st Century Digital Skill Sets: Scaling a solution to technological employability and literacy for deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf people with additional disabilities
• ML2: VL2 Storybook Apps and Storybook Creator
• Navigating Social Distancing with DeafBlind Children: ProTactile Language Acquisition in an Online Learning Environment
• NSF IUSE: Creating Validated Learning Objectives to Improve Course Design and Student Outcomes in Introductory Biology.
• Perception of COVID-19 physical distancing effectiveness and contagiousness of asymptomatic individuals: A cross sectional survey of deaf and hard of hearing adults in U.S.
• Population genetics of connexin 26 deafness
• Priority Research Fund
• Reducing Language Obstacles Deaf Students Face When Developing Scientific Competencies
• RERC on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• REU Accessible Information and Communications Technologies
• REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Estuarine Processes
• Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning (SAIL)
• Small Research Grants
• Synthesis of bismuth telluride nanomaterials
• The RAVE Revolution for Children with Minimal Language Experience During Sensitive Periods of Brain and Language Development
• Twenty-First Century Captioning Technology, Metrics and Usability (Captioning DRRP)

Internally funded projects

(32 projects)

• 'Deaf Studies Digital Journal'
• A Brief Cognitive Screening Tool for The Deaf Population: A Pilot Study.
• A Case Study Evaluation of a Formal ASL-English Mentorship Program
• A Translation of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form to American Sign Language
• Behavioral and neural responses to American Sign Language avatars
• Biological Motion Perception in Deaf Native Signers
• BRIDGES- Bias Reduction Intervention: Deaf Gain in Employment Settings
• Characterizing Deaf Children’s Early Communication Services: An Online Parent Survey
• Chinese Students’ Deaf Identities: To and From a Deaf-Centric University
• Cognitive and affective predictors of language and socioemotional outcomes in deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
• Communication of sexual health knowledge and attitudes by deaf and hard of hearing undergraduates with their parents
• Comparative Analysis of Novice and Experienced Interpreters Cognitive Aptitude
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students' Skills and Needs for Academic Success
• Do expert signers recruit signed phonology processes while solving single digit multiplication problems?
• Examining how Deaf translators negotiate concepts that are not conventionalized in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Infusing the Reggio Emilia Approach in Deaf Education
• Listening Effort and Developmental Neuroplasticity in Children with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants
• Mental Health Literacy & Black Men: A Critical Exploration of Intersecting Black Male Perspectives
• Motivated Look at Indicating Verbs in ASL (MoLo)
• Neural investigation on the impact of a visual language on arithmetic processing: an fMRI approach
• New Signers: Acculturation and Coping
• Parental Disclosure of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Children
• Recognizing and using emotional and grammatical facial expressions in deaf children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Representation of deaf characters in television watched by adolescents and young adults
• Semantic Congruity Effects in Non-Native ASL Interpreters with Signed Sentences: An ERP Study
• SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN EUROPEAN ASYLUM RECEPTION FACILITIES: DISCLOSURE EXPERIENCES
• Sign-to-voice interpreting considering clients with differing language preferences.
• Targeting America's Defectives: the Exclusion of Deaf People from State Sterilization Programs
• The impact of language experience on the neural activations of arithmetical processing (EEG)
• The impact of language modality on number sense and arithmetic processing (adult study)
• What are some of the barriers for Black Deaf college students pursuing bachelor's and/or master's degrees?
• What experiences do American Sign Language – English Interpreters from the United States have when working abroad?

No funding source listed

(24 projects)

• Adaptations of Parent Child Interaction Therapy for Deaf Families
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Can-Do Statements for ASL
• BL2 Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Basic Certificate Program
• Case Studies of the Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach to Develop Writing Skills of American Sign Language-English Interpreting Students
• Computer Simulations to Understand Disease Mechanisms
• Effectiveness of Telemental Health Services Among a Clinical Sample of Deaf and Hearing Consumers
• Efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Children and Families
• Help-Seeking Behavioral Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals
• How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language.
• Language Attitudes about Interpreters
• Language Emergence, Evolution, and Acquisition
• Performance Anxiety in Adults Who Gesture
• Philadelphia signs
• Prosody in Cochlear Implant Users
• Prosody in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Serving During Crisis: A Case Study of Public Servants Demonstrating Engagement, Empathy, Equity, and Ethics
• Signed Coreference Resolution
• Smoking and Aging Effects on the Auditory System
• Stress, Social Support, and Life Experience
• The Climate of the ASL Profession: ASL Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Assessment.
• The Impact of COVID-19 and Emergency Online Learning on Deaf College Students' Experience of Social Isolation and Well-being
• The Influence of Language on Cognitive Development
• The reading habits of professional signed and spoken language interpreters
• Women Writers Buried in Virginia