Family ASL is our new research project! We are investigating families with deaf children and hearing parents who have chosen to include American Sign Language as one of their family languages. Our project looks at how parents and children learn ASL together, and the children’s development of English and in other areas as well. For more information about how to get involved, visit our Recruitment page.

Co-Principal Investigators Diane Lillo-Martin Deborah Chen Pichler Elaine Gale
Contributors (* indicates current) ASL Specialist Lab Manager Patrice Creamer* Meghan Shaw*   Research Associates / Consultants Mary Cecilia Conte*   Ana (AJ) Dejesus Brittany Farr Corinna Goodwin*   Matthew Hall* Jon Henner Amber Martin* Jeff Palmer* Janina Piotroski Nikki Pire Charles Vernon

Graduate Students

Martin Dale-Hench*	Linghui (Eva) Gan*	Shengyun Gu*
Kaj Kraus*	Chui-Yi (Maggie) Lee*	Daniel Meier

 

Related Presentations

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2021). Stuck at beginner level: Hearing parents’ challenges in learning ASL word order. Poster presentation; 20^th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021. 2021_EHDI_Chen_Pichler_et_al_poster

Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2021). Bimodal Bilingualism for an early start to equitable education for deaf children. 20^th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021. 2021_EHDI_Gale_et_al_Handout

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). How to support ASL as an L1 for children and L2 for parents: An interactive discussion. Early Hearing Detection and Intervention; March 2020. Chen Pichler, Gale & Lillo-Martin EHDI 2020 ASL L1_L2

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gagne, Deanna & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Parents partnering with language researchers. American Society for Deaf Children Conference; Newark, Delaware; June 2019. ASDC-2019_Chen-Pichler_Gagne_Lillo-Martin_talk

Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Motivation for L2 ASL learning by hearing parents with deaf children. Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); November 2019. 2019_BUCLD_Poster_DCP_DLM_Motivation

Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2018). Hearing parents and deaf children learning a sign language together. 4th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing; Bad Ischl, Austria; June 15, 2018. 2018_FCEI_Chen_Pichler_Lillo-Martin_handout

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2022). Sign language for deaf and hard of hearing children: Pervasive biases that are often overlooked. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; Originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to June 2022.

Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gale, Elaine (2022). Understanding diverse contexts for bimodal bilingual development: L1 vs. L2 learning. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; Originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to June 2022.

Chen Pichler, Deborah, Conte, Mary Cecilia, Creamer, Patrice, Dale-Hench, Martin, Gale, Elaine, Goodwin, Corina, Gu, Shengyun, Kraus, Kaj, Lee, Chui-Yi, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Palmer, Jeffrey, Petersen, Bettie & Shaw, Meghan. Profile of a family’s bimodal bilingual development. Poster presentation; Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; Nov. 2023. 2023 BUCLD Poster