VL2 12/11/07 Public Colloquium Mehan Classroom Ethnographies in School and Community Contexts by Dr. Bud Mehan from University of California at San Diego
The science of learning center on Visual language and visual leaning VL2 held its first series of planned colloquia. The colloquium opened to public was entitled “The application of qualitative research methods to the study of early literacy in classrooms.” December
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VL2 12/11/07 Lee Public Colloquium Video Records as Data for Examining the Multi-modal and Cultural Modes of Communication in Classrooms by Dr. Carol Lee, from Northwestern University
The science of learning center on Visual language and visual leaning VL2 held its first series of planned colloquia. The colloquium was entitled “The application of qualitative research methods to the study of early literacy in classrooms”. December
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VL2 10/09/08 Metaxas 3D Face and Hand Tracking for ASL
Dr. Dimitris Metaxas is a professor in both the Division of Computer & Information Sciences and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University.
Dr. Metaxas has 15+ years of research in the field of ASL analysis and tracking. He will demonstrate new automated methods for face and hand ...
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VL2 10/29/09 Connor Literacy Development of Deaf Children
Many deaf children have serious difficulties learning to read proficiently. Dr. Connor’s presentation will provide information
regarding the intricate links between language and literacy skills for both deaf children and children with normal hearing. Additionally, Dr. Connor with discuss how the ...
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VL2 10/27/10 Riesenhuber Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? Is it a Word? Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition
Object recognition is a fundamental cognitive task that we perform countless times every day – such as right now when reading the words in this abstract. Yet, despite the apparent ease with which we see, object recognition is a very difficult computational problem. It is even more difficult from ...
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VL2 4/7/10 Hile Deaf Children's Acquisition of Novel Fingerspelled Word
Dr. Amy Hile will discuss her research on the ability of deaf children to acquire new vocabulary through fingerspelling, and its
connection with bilingual language development. April
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VL2 2/25/10 Padden Grammar and the body
Grammars are often viewed as abstract systems that
represent general properties of human language. In this
talk, Dr. Padden will discuss a revised view of the grammars
of sign languages in which the body, hands, head, and face
play a key role in the grammatical
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VL2 10/14/09 Schneps Scientist with Dyslexia Exhibit Visuospatial Strengths
Important advances in science and mathematics have come from individuals with learning disabilities, whose different ways of looking at the world have led to revolutionizing their fields. Dr. Schneps will discuss the results of a study linking
dyslexia to spatial dexterity, suggesting that ...
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VL2 03/11/09 Bavalier Brain Plasticity and Learning Lessons from Deafness by Dr. Daphne Bavelier
Evidence for re-organization of visual functions after
congenital deafness will be reviewed. Dr. Bavelier will
argue that deaf individuals do not have better vision, but
rather that deafness leads to change in some specific
aspects of visual attention.
March
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VL2 02/11/09 Goldin-Meadow Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language
Dr. Goldin-Meadow discusses the versatility of form and function of gesture. According to her, under certain circumstances, gesture can substitute for speech, and when it does, it embodies the resilient properties of language. Under other circumstances, gesture can form a fully integrated system ...
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VL2 3/10/10 Sentence Processing in L2 Readers: linguistic and exposure-based factors Dr. Paola (Giuli) Dussias
Dr. Dussias will discuss factors that impact second language (L2) readers, as well as bilinguals’ literacy characteristics and specific linguistic experiences that may
determine their performance on reading comprehension tasks. March
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VL2 10/13/10 Harris A Case Study of Extended Discourse in an ASL/English Pre-school Classroom
Dr. Raychelle Harris, of the ASL and Deaf Studies Department at Gallaudet University, gave a presentation based on her dissertation research: "A Case Study of Extended Discourse in an ASL/English Preschool Classroom."
Currently, there is high interest within the Sign Language communities in the ...
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VL2 10/22/08 McCaskill and Lucas Black ASL: The Socio-historical Foundations
"Black ASL" presentation will discuss the history and education of Black deaf children and the implications of this history for the structure and use of Black ASL. Project clips will be shown by Drs. Carolyn McCaskill and Ceil Lucas.
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VL2 11/08/07 Sen & Mitchell
Large-Scale Academic Achievement Testing of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Past, Present, and Future by Drs. Sen Qi and Ross E. Mitchell. Gallaudet Research Institute.
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