🎉 Yesterday, Razi Zarchy, SLPD, CCC-SLP and I found out a publication finally came out! 🎉 More good academic news today! Back in October, we applied for President Wood’s Research Enhanced Support Grant. Today, we found out we received this award! 💰 How much??? I’m sure that’s the question on many people’s minds. Well, this wasn’t an award that comes with cash money but for the Fall 2024 semester, we will each receive 3 units of assigned time, which means teaching one less class, freeing up time to focus on this project. 📜 So, what’s the project? We will be offering our first *in person* ASL at Home class through the Sac State Maryjane Reese Language Speech and Hearing Clinic. This will be a 12-week class following the Clinic schedule. Four graduate students studying to become speech-language pathologists (SLPs) will receive training on our curriculum and gain experience teaching families in the class about facilitative language techniques. Four undergraduate students in Deaf Studies will gain experience working directly with deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing children while their parents attend class. ✍🏼 It’s called a “research enhancement support grant”; where’s the research? Good question! We will work on submitting a proposal to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) so that we can survey participants on their self-perceived ASL abilities, ASL use, ease of communication with their deaf child, communication self-efficacy, and perceptions of deafness before and after the class. It is our hope that this research can be presented at conferences and ultimately published as a journal article or book chapter. #asl #ASLatHome #earlyIntervention #familyCenteredCurriculum #routineBasedLearning #PresidentsResearchEnhancedSupportGrant #sacState #sacStateDeafStudies #CSAD #communicationSciencesAndDisorders
Congratulations and wishing you much success!