The Fourth International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition

第四届国际手语习得会议

• 批准号: 2017625
• 负责人: Naomi Caselli
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017625&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fourth; International; Conference; Sign; Language

The 4th International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA) will convene virtually; this will be the first time the conference has had a United States host. This triennial conference gathers global experts on sign language acquisition. Studying the acquisition of sign languages greatly enhances our understanding of general language development, relationships between input and proficiency, multilingualism, and the possibilities (and limitations) of the human ability to learn language. The invited keynote presenters will discuss unique insights from sign language acquisition with respect to three central foci: (1) variable language input, (2) neural plasticity and neurodiversity, and (3) modality (signing, speaking, writing). This research also has the potential for profound impacts on the lives of deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. To this end, the conference will include professional development activities designed to draw practitioners in aligned fields including sign language teaching, deaf education, early intervention, and speech-language pathology. The goal is to make sign language acquisition research accessible to practitioners, and to inform researchers of the practical needs of people working most closely with deaf children. Funding from the National Science Foundation will support education and enhance accessibility, diversity, and inclusion at ICSLA by subsidizing costs for students and attendees from underrepresented groups, and by providing for all conference activities to be accessible in English, American Sign Language, and International Sign. Many researchers in this field are themselves deaf or hard-of-hearing. Four of our six invited keynote presenters are deaf, and there are deaf members of the planning and scientific committees. Deaf students will receive mentoring through these role models. We aim to set an example by doing more than simply providing access to deaf participants, but centering the conference on the experiences and expertise of deaf children, students, educators, and researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第四届手语获取国际会议（ICSLA）将实际上召集；这将是会议第一次有美国主持人。 这次三年展会议收集了有关手语获取的全球专家。研究符号语言的获取极大地增强了我们对一般语言发展，投入与熟练程度之间的关系，多语言主义以及人类学习语言能力的可能性（和局限性）的理解。 受邀主题演讲者将讨论有关三个中央焦点的手语获取的独特见解：（1）可变语言输入，（2）神经可塑性和神经多样性，以及（3）模式（签名，说话，写作）。 这项研究还有可能对聋人和聆听儿童及其家人的生活产生深远的影响。为此，会议将包括专业发展活动，旨在吸引统一领域的从业人员，包括手语教学，聋哑教育，早期干预和语音语言病理学。目的是使从业人员可以访问手语的手语获取研究，并向研究人员告知与聋哑儿童最紧密工作的人们的实际需求。 国家科学基金会的资金将通过补贴来自代表性不足的团体的学生和与会者的费用，并提供所有可以使用英语，美国手语和国际标志访问的会议活动，从而支持ICSLA教育，多样性和纳入ICSLA的可及性，多样性和包容性的资金。该领域的许多研究人员本身都是聋或听力障碍。我们六个受邀主题演讲者中有四个是聋人，并且计划和科学委员会有聋人。聋人学生将通过这些榜样获得指导。我们的目标是通过做一些不仅仅提供聋人参与者的访问权，而是以聋哑儿童，学生，教育工作者和研究人员的经验和专业知识为中心。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来支持的。