Publications

Scholarly Accomplishments, May 2026

BU Wheelock presents the following publications, presentations, honors, and research grant awards for May 2026.

Honors

Yasuko Kanno

Recognition for “Top Cited Article in 2025”: Kanno, Y., Rios-Aguilar, C., & Bunch, G. (2024). English learners? Emergent bilinguals? Multilingual learners?: Goals, contexts, and consequences in labeling students. TESOL Journal, 15(3), e797. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.797  

Articles

Amelia Becker and Naomi Caselli

Becker, A. A., Pyers, J. E., & Caselli, N. E. (2026). Mechanisms of vocabulary acquisition persist under variable language experience. Developmental Science, 29(3), e70169.

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K. D., Lombardi, C., & Carlson, D. (2026). A national look at Early Head Start services available to and experienced by families and children. Child & Youth Care Forum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-026-09943-2

Lindsey Chapman

Meyer, K., & Chapman, L. A. (2026). Beyond survival: Reflections on anti-ableist mentorship in special education teacher education. Journal of Special Education Preparation, 6(1), 38–44. https://doi.org/10.33043/3n55xa5rr99 

Louise Michelle Vital

Olt, P. A., Nasser, M., Vital, L. M., Tolman, S., Archibald, J. G., Bodine Al-Sharif, M. A., Blue Brazelton, Carducci, R., Houdyshell, M., McMickens, T. L., Meixner, C., Mistretta, M., Paciej-Woodruff, A., Stevens, R., Wendle, A., & Mayo, C. E. P. (2026). Solo faculty program coordinators in student affairs-related graduate programs. The Qualitative Report, 31(4), 5686–5709. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2026.7935

Presentations

Laura Jiménez

Jiménez, L. M. (2026, May). Character agency in picture books [Keynote address]. Cambridge College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Franklin Jones, Jr.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, May 23). My journey with Black American Sign Language and the story behind the book [Guest speaker presentation]. Louisiana Association of the Deaf, Louisiana, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, May 16). Keynote address. Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, Atlanta, GA, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, May 11). Black American Sign Language (BASL) [Guest speaker presentation]. Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, April 20). Black American Sign Language (BASL) [Guest speaker presentation]. Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, April 13). My journey with Black American Sign Language [Virtual guest speaker presentation]. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, February 23). The story behind the BASL book [Virtual guest speaker presentation]. St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States.

Jones, F. R., Jr. (2026, February 16). My journey with Black American Sign Language [Guest speaker presentation]. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.

TJ McKenna

McKenna, T. J., Adhikari, B., Colley, C., Li, T., Menon, D., Schwarz, C., Sharma, M., & Esbenshade, L. (2026, April). Cultivating joyful transgression in elementary science methods: A collaborative self-study of AI integration and radical imagination [Conference symposium]. NARST 2026 Annual International Conference, Seattle, WA, United States.

McKenna, T. J. (2026, April). Exploring joyful transgressions in STEM: A thematic analysis of student notebooks from a university sensemaking in STEM course [Conference paper]. NARST 2026 Annual International Conference, Seattle, WA, United States.

Emily Saunders and Amy Lieberman

Saunders, E., Higgins, M., & Lieberman, A. (2026, April). Allocation of visual attention among deaf children in interactive play and independent sign recognition [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Kaylene Stevens

Higgins, T., Stevens, K., Hobbs, K., & Rubin, A. (2026, April). Using data to explore the past, examine the present, and envision the future [Poster presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, United States.

Kaylene Stevens and Rob Martinelle

Littenberg-Tobias, J., Martinelle, R., Stevens, K., & Jordan, K. (2026, April). “You think big originally”: Exploring student perceptions of civic engagement within a civic action curriculum. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, United States.

Anna Ward

Ward, S. K., & Logan, K. M. (2026, March 29). Preliminary findings: Self-compassion and behavioral persistence in collegiate athletes [Lecture presentation]. New England Regional Association for Applied Sport Psychology Annual Conference, Springfield, MA, United States.

Sen Wang

Wang, S. (2026, May 6). Advancing research on AI and child development: Interactive discussion of priority questions, methods, safety, and policy [Webinar]. Society for Research in Child Development.

Wang, S., & Hadley, E. B. (2026, April). Growing words: An integrated framework for building vocabulary knowledge in the early grades [Roundtable presentation]. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, United States.