VL2 11/6/08 Pollick Gestures and Multimodal Signaling in Bonobos and Chimpanzees
Dr. Pollick, Director of Government Relations of Association for Psychological Sciences, will discuss gestures and multimodal communication in great apes based on her research work.
Great ape communication is complex and flexible yet research has yet research has largely been focused on ...
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Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
VL2 02/13/08 Kelly & Barac-Cikoja Elements of skill crucial for deaf readers: what we know, what we don't know, and promise (not promises) for the future.
Dr. Leonard Kelly and Dr. Dragana Barac-Cikoja presented on overview of research on skills that can affect deaf readers' word recognition and reading
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
VL2 3/12/08 Dye Visual Attention in Deaf Individuals
There are two contrasting hypotheses in the literature. The first suggests that deafness results in poorer visual skills due to an inability to integrate information across vision and audition. These studies report that deaf children have poorer visual attention skills, and are more easily ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
VL2 12/11/07 Dickinson Public Colloquium: The Road Rarely taken: Examining Lanauage in Early Childhood Classrooom by Dr. David Dickinson of Vanderbilt University.
The science of learning center on Visual language and visual leaning VL2 held its first series of planned colloquia. The colloquium opened to public on December 11, 2007 was entitled “The application of qualitative research methods to the study of early literacy in classrooms”. December
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Category: VL2
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VL2 2/4/10 Mayberry The Linguistic Foundations of Reading: Insights from Readers who Sign
Several hypotheses have proposed explanations for the low median reading level of the deaf student population. Dr.
Mayberry will discuss perceptions of these hypotheses and
summarize a series of modern studies that suggest
otherwise. Feb
Category: VL2
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Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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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Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
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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
Category: VL2
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Category: VL2
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1989 The Deaf Way One "Perspectives from the US on Equal Opportunity for Deaf People in the Entertainment Industry"
1989 The Deaf Way One
"Perspectives from the US on Equal Opportunity for Deaf People in the Entertainment Industry"
July 11, 1989
Phyllis Frelich shares her experience of struggling to get into the film industry as an actress, in her time at Gallaudet University there was no major provided in ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:41:46
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:41:46
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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 ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
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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 ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
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1989 The Deaf Way One "The Study of Sign Language"
1989 The Deaf Way One "The Study of Sign Language." Dr. Harvey Corson introduces Dr. Brita Bergman and briefly tells of her educational background. Dr. Brita Bergman has a doctorate in linguistics and is a faculty member in the department of sign language in linguistics at Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:28:23
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:28:23
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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 ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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 ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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
Category: VL2
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Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
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 ...
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 3 Aug 2012
VL2 12/11/07 Public Colloquium Maxwell Qualitative and Quantitative: Two Scientific Ways of Knowing by Dr. Joseph Maxwell, George Mason University
The science of learning center on Visual language and visual leaning VL2 held its first series of planned colloquia. The colloquium opened to public on December 11, 2007 was entitled “The application of qualitative research methods to the study of early literacy in classrooms”. The event drew its ...
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Added: 3 Aug 2012
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
Category: VL2
Added: 2 Aug 2012
Category: VL2
Added: 2 Aug 2012
Bottles and Vases New Work by Andre Pellerin
Bottles and Vases hosted and presented by Andre
Added: 2 Aug 2012
Added: 2 Aug 2012
1989 The Deaf Way One "Human Rights & Deaf People"
1989 The Deaf Way One "Human Rights & Deaf People." Dr. Hurst Hannum and Dr. Mary Malzkuhn is the speakers on the topic of human rights and deaf people. Dr. Hannum expands on the creation of United Nations, to establish fundamental human rights. Dr. Hannum mentioned that the deaf community ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:28:57
Added: 2 Aug 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:28:57
Added: 2 Aug 2012
1989 The Deaf Way One "Legal Issues & Deafness: Deaf Lawyers' Perspectives"
1989 The Deaf Way One
"Legal Issues & Deafness: Deaf Lawyers' Perspectives"
July 10, 1989
Bill Mather works for the United States Department of Justice for Civil Rights along with several other deaf lawyers. Michael Schwartz is a district attorney for the deaf people in New York for the New York ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 00:44:37
Added: 1 Aug 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 00:44:37
Added: 1 Aug 2012
1989 The Deaf Way One "Deafness and the Political Agenda"
1989 The Deaf Way One
"Deafness and the Political Agenda"
July 10, 1989
A brief scene of Mr. Barry, a guest speaker. Mr. Barry spoke about the necessity of creating goals and then to put into action before the year of 2000 to improve accessibility of all deaf people in the world. Yerker Andersson ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 00:47:59
Added: 1 Aug 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 00:47:59
Added: 1 Aug 2012
1989 The Deaf Way One "Opening Ceremony"
1989 The Deaf Way One
"Opening Ceremony"
July 10, 1989
Dr. Mervin Garretson begin the Deaf Way’s opening ceremony. United States’ national anthem is sung. Mayor Marion Barry of Washington D.C. proclaiming July 9 to 15 as “Deaf Way Week.” Dr. Carol Hertig welcomes everyone attending and tells the ...
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:04:13
Added: 31 Jul 2012
Category: Deaf Way (1989)
Duration: 01:04:13
Added: 31 Jul 2012