CNIC: U.S.-Swedish Workshop on Assessment of Multimodal-Multilingual Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

CNIC：美国-瑞典聋哑儿童多模式多语言发展评估研讨会

• 批准号: 1444123
• 负责人: Matthew Dye
• 金额: $ 6.17万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-15 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444123&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNIC; U.S.; Swedish; Workshop; Assessment

The goal of this U.S.-Swedish workshop is to catalyze new research collaborations focused on how early visual and auditory experiences shape the linguistic and cognitive development of infants and young children, especially those born deaf or hard-of-hearing. Rather than examining only the auditory and spoken language abilities of deaf and hard-of-hearing children, the workshop's research framework will conceptualize these children as multilingual learners who experience the world both auditorily and visually. The workshop participants will address four key methodological questions: (1) what is the best neuroimaging approach for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, (2) how can we best assess communicative competence in multilingual children, (3) what are the challenges for assessment of the language environment in homes, and (4) how might effective intervention strategies be developed and validated? Swedish partners from the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University are ideal counterparts in this endeavor because in Sweden's education system, there is extensive experience in bilingual-bicultural education for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and there are relatively high rates of cochlear implantation. Initial success at the workshop should point the way for next steps to explore the complex interplay between cochlear implantation and use of both a visual sign language and an auditory spoken language. For broader impact, another objective of the workshop in Stockholm is to provide a forum for U.S. doctoral students and early stage researchers to network with Swedish experts and other European academics, exposing them to new perspectives on the development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Deaf academics and students will be included in the workshop, alongside representatives of schools and parent groups, to maximize the potential for broad scientific impact. By shifting the framework for discussion and future research planning away from one of deficit to one of diversity, the workshop participants aim to develop innovative research proposals to address the societal problem of how to best educate deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

这个美国 - 智慧研讨会的目的是催化新的研究合作，重点是早期视觉和听觉体验如何塑造婴儿和幼儿的语言和认知发展，尤其是那些天生的聋哑人或聋哑人。 该研讨会的研究框架不仅检查聋哑儿童的听觉和口语能力，还会将这些孩子概念化为多语言学习者，他们在监视和视觉上都体验世界。研讨会参与者将解决四个关键的方法论问题：（1）聋哑儿童和听力障碍儿童的最佳神经影像学方法是什么，（2）我们如何最好地评估多语言儿童中的交流能力，（3）评估家庭语言环境的挑战是什么，以及（4）如何开发和验证有效的干预策略？斯德哥尔摩大学语言学系的瑞典合作伙伴是这项努力的理想对应者，因为在瑞典的教育系统中，在双语双语教育方面具有丰富的聋哑儿童和听力障碍儿童的经验，并且有相对较高的人工耳蜗植入。研讨会上的最初成功应为下一步探索人工耳蜗植入与使用视觉手语和听觉语言之间的复杂相互作用的方式指向下一步的道路。为了更广泛的影响，斯德哥尔摩研讨会的另一个目标是为美国博士学生和早期研究人员提供一个论坛，以与瑞典专家和其他欧洲学者建立联系，使他们了解有关聋哑儿童发展的新观点。聋人学者和学生将与学校和家长团体的代表一起参加研讨会，以最大程度地发挥广泛的科学影响。通过将讨论和未来研究计划的框架从赤字中的一个转变为多样性之一，讲习班参与者旨在制定创新的研究建议，以解决如何最好地教育聋哑儿童的社会问题。