Living as a Black person amid systemic racism, marginalization, and prejudice is difficult enough. And when you’re Black and Deaf, the struggle intensifies: Deaf Black people face exclusion, marginalization, and… Read more
Researchers and practitioners—including teachers of the deaf, sign language specialists, and early intervention providers—will come together for the 4th International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition. Hosted this year by BU… Read more
BU Wheelock’s Deaf Studies program has received a Diversity Supplement grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to support the hire of a Deaf postdoctoral researcher for a two-year… Read more
BU Wheelock faculty contribute innovative research on a wide range of timely topics, ranging from American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary acquisition to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM learning for… Read more
By Aliya Omarkhanova (Wheelock’20) Dr. Naomi Caselli is an Assistant Professor in Deaf Studies at Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on how early language experience affects… Read more
For Conrad Baer (’19), reflection on his time completing his Ed.M. in Deaf Studies at BU Wheelock provides two major takeaways: the importance of leveraging technology and the need to… Read more
Frontiers in Communication has published “The Development and Evaluation of a New ASL Text Comprehension Task,” a new study that examines the reliability of the American Sign Language Text Comprehension Task… Read more
Dr. Naomi Caselli, along with researchers at San Diego State University and Tufts University, and a team of software engineers at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and… Read more
We’re kicking off the fall semester with a look at our new, promoted, and awarded faculty members. In this post, you’ll meet the new full-time faculty members who are joining… Read more
Patrick Rosenburg (EdD candidate in Language & Literacy) has been named the inaugural recipient of Ann S. Ferren Research Fund in Education Award. The Ferren Research Fund provides support for… Read more