On the bright side, some scholars have proposed innovative practices for how deaf students
should be educated properly and effectively. Theoretical considerations are also getting better and
stronger all the time. Providing directions for policy is of urgency. As President, I find it timely to form a
committee and recruit scholars to help write a white paper on what education should look like for deaf
students. I will do just that in the months to come. Please feel free to read the following highly
recommended articles that have helped shaped my President's Note writing:
Short-term Memory Span: Insights from Sign Language by Mrim Boutla, Ted Supalla, Elissa Newport, and
Daphne Bavelier (2004)
The Power of Spoken Language in Schools and Deaf Students Who Sign by Jody Cripps and Samuel
Supalla (2012)
Literacy and Linguistic Development in Bilingual Deaf Children: Implications of the “And” for Phonological
Processing by Lynn McQuarrie and Rauno Parrila (2014)
The Expansion of Sign Language Education by Carol Padden (2003)
Why Doesn’t Everyone Here Speak Sign Language? Questions of Language Policy, Ideology, and
Economics by Jennifer Rayman (2009)
Equity in Education: Signed Language and the Courts by Kristin Snoddon (2009)
A Sketch on Reading Methodology for Deaf Children by Samuel Supalla (2017, pp. 35 – 55)
Reading, Special Education, and Deaf Children by Samuel Supalla and Andrew Byrne (2018, pp. 36 – 53)
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