2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
| Researching Shared Attention Through Deaf Eyes
Researching Shared Attention Through Deaf Eyes
Studying joint attention through deaf eyes offers important insights into language learning in deaf children. Researchers investigating joint attention with deaf infants and toddlers need to consider how joint attention may look different in children who engage in both language and objects in the same modality. In this presentation we describe the coding procedures proposed by Gabouer & Bortfeld (2021), and share preliminary results of a study on shared attention between deaf toddlers and their hearing parents who are learning to sign. We investigated the duration of shared attention and its relation to language learning with a 10-minute joint play language samples of deaf toddlers with their parents. These results offer strategies that families and professionals can use to support language learning through shared visual attention.
- Describe shared attention coding procedures
- Discuss shared attention through deaf eyes and language data
- List at least two strategies to engage in visual shared attention
Presentation:
3478265_16380ElaineGale.pdf
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Presenters/Authors
Elaine Gale
(Primary Presenter), Hunter College, CUNY, egale@hunter.cuny.edu;
Elaine Gale is an associate professor and program leader of the deaf and hard of hearing teacher preparation program at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She is currently the chair of the Deaf Leadership International Alliance (DLIA), an organization established to advocate deaf adults collaborating with professionals and connecting with young deaf children and their families. Her research experiences include joint attention, theory of mind, and sign language development. At present, she is the Lead Investigator for the Hunter College consortium on a research project titled Family ASL: Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition by Deaf Children of Hearing Parents supported by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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• Receives Grants for Other activities from PI.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Financial relationship with .
Nature: National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health under award number 1R01DC016901.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Amber Martin
(Co-Presenter), Hunter College, CUNY, am2631@hunter.cuny.edu;
Dr. Amber Martin is a faculty member in the department of psychology at Hunter College. She runs the Cognition Language and Sign Laboratory where she studies language acquisition and cognitive development in deaf children. She serves on the board of St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf in Brooklyn.
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Financial relationship with National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health under award number 1R01DC016901.
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Eileen Lograno
(Co-Presenter), Hunter College, CUNY, el240@hunter.cuny.edu;
Biography Eileen is a profoundly Deaf woman hailing from New York City. She is a passionate teacher by day in an elementary school and college at night. Eileen currently holds a Masters Degree in both School Counseling and Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Grades Birth-12).
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