VLAA Lab

BIG NEWS: In partnership with @WilmotCancer's @oreganruth the Future Deaf Scientists program will be expanding to 4 new locations across the U.S. So excited to watch our program grow and expand opportunities for Deaf students. urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/wil…

Thrilled to have a new paper out with Dr. Julia Hecht in @TheLancet - one of the oldest and most respected medical journals. "Primary health care practices for deaf children should include early incorporation of a signed language" thelancet.com/journals/lance… Main points below 1/7

So excited to start this project in California! Take a look at the article to see what the lab is up to. urmc.rochester.edu/clinical-trans…

🌍 Today, on International Day of Families, we celebrate unity across borders. 95% of deaf children born to hearing families don't have access to sign language. The WFD launches a policy paper advocating for sign language rights ➡️ wfdeaf.org/news/resources…

The one day Deaf mental health conference - Auslan Saved My Life! just completed very successfully with great presenters, audience and sponsors. Happy Auslan day for tomorrow 13th April! #deakin #IHT #auslanday #auslansavedmylife @wyattehall @DainiusPuras

Deaf education and early intervention are the only fields of science that still view signed languages as “controversial” for healthy human development. Linguistics, brain imaging, psychology, and more eagerly research it to expand our understanding of what it means to be human.

Look for the PLAY Lab table at Deaf Day (Saturday, April 13 from 10 am to 5 pm) at @museumofplay. See you there! museumofplay.org/event/deaf-day…

We are proud to share that our very own Drs. @AileenAldalur and @kimvanorden alongside Dr. Wyatte Hall of @VLAAlab and researchers from @GallaudetU and @UMassChan were recently awarded the Quality Institute Healthcare Innovation Pilot Award from the @UR_Med Quality Institute.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679922/2… so proud of this Special Issue on the Acquisition of Sign Languages as Additional Languages! Check out the *signed* Accessible Summaries on OASIS. Kudos to the guest editors Russell Rosen and David Quinto-Pozos, and to LL lead editor Theres Gruter!

Had the pleasure of watching @Innivee present today to @WilmotCancer leadership about their needs assessment of local deaf community cancer treatment and access. Highly informative and important work! @UR_Med

Honored to be in good company with @jaivirdi in this article discussing gene-editing.

Normally, we post our interviews on instagram, but we want this interview to be seen by a larger audience. We hope anyone who views this interview gains new insight into the world of research. VLAA Spotlight: Jon Henner youtu.be/Jjt1xDy3CMo?si… via @YouTube

This is a huge deal for all disabled communities, but especially for our deaf signing communities that have had to contend with limiting frameworks in NIH to date. Our intersectionality of sociocultural linguistics and disability is a great fit for @NIMHD!

Opportunities to learn Auslan from birth as standard for all deaf children in Australia would have prevented the language deprivation impacts here. Access to sign languages is a human right for all deaf children. @GlobLangRights abc.net.au/news/2023-08-2… via @ABCaustralia

Bioethics in Film: From Screen to Seminar returns on September 19 @ 12pm ET with a discussion of The Silent Child. Featuring @drjosephjmurray; Susan Burch, PhD; and @wyattehall; moderated by @jaivirdi. ASL interpreters and live captioners will be present. ow.ly/xCBF50PyApG

Welcome, interns! Medical students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine are with us through @ASCO's summer internship program. Students from @RSDeaf are joining us to learn more about medicine & oncology. We celebrated them all with an ice cream social this week. 🍦

Day 3! We start off with @skbn_scientist talking about translational science and working in the lab. She does a great job of contextualizing how COVID19 accelerated translational science with societal investments and participation. @WilmotCancer @RSDeaf @UR_Med @URochester_SMD

Students today are learning about integrative oncology and the importance of exercise and wellness. Program leadership includes @oreganruth, @RSDSupt, @NicoleO60197047, @DrCarlaCasulo, Sarah Gordon, Susan Ogden, myself, @skbn_scientist and more

New paper out "Associations of childhood hearing loss and adverse childhood experiences in deaf adults" with @GlobalHealthNow and @shazia_siddiqi Thread below with some thoughts behind this journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

To be deaf is not the source of language deprivation. Lets focus on "and" instead of "or" when it comes to accessible language. watch.ripbs.org/video/language…