FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

FY 2007-2008 product(s):
Gerner de Garcia, B. (2008, February). The Latin American and the Caribbean Newborn Hearing Screening Survey: Process and
results. Presentation at the conference of the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing,
Monterey, CA.
Gerner de Garcia, B., Gaffney, C., Chacon, S., & Gaffney, M. (2008, February). A new frontier: Current EHDI activities in
Latin America. Poster presentation at the 2008 National Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference, New
Orleans, LA.
Gerner de Garcia, B., Gaffney, C., & Gaffney, M. (2008, June). The next frontier: An overview of EHDI activities in Latin
America. Presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Newborn Hearing Screening, Como Lake, Italy.
Lexical Variation in Chinese Sign Language: Language Planning and
Standardization for Postsecondary Education
Status: Ongoing Begin date: January 2007 End date: February 2009
Principal Investigator(s):
Lin, Christina – Gallaudet University alumna, now working in China
Gerner de Garcia, Barbara – Educational Foundations and Research
Chen-Pichler, Deborah – Linguistics
Description:
Chinese Deaf students (n=338) from nine postsecondary programs were surveyed to seek
their perception of the need for standardizing Chinese Sign Language. Educators of the deaf in
postsecondary settings were also interviewed. A preliminary plan for standardizing CSL for use in
postsecondary education was developed after analyzing the data, using Reagan’s (2001) language
planning process for sign language.
FY 2007-2008 product(s):
Lin, C., Gerner de Garcia, B., & Chen Pichler, D. (in press). Lexical variation in Chinese Sign Language: Language
planning and standardization for postsecondary education. Current Issues in Language Planning.
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