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Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

College of Fine Arts and Communication

Andrea Alford

Doctoral Student
Email: aalford3@lamar.edu

Hometown

  • Cypress, Texas

Current Employment

  • Coordinator of Deaf Education, Vision, and Assistive Technology (West 10 Regional Day School Program for the Deaf, Katy ISD)

Education

  • LU Certification program for Educational Administration, Lamar University
  • M.S. in Deaf Education, 51勛圖ProWoman's University
  • B.S. in Communication Disorders, 51勛圖ProWoman's University

Research Interests

  • Early language acquisition and early intervention
  • Deaf education instructional practices
  • Cognitive psychology

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Courson, F. F., Alford, A. D., Bencak J. M., & Edwards, S. G. (2023). Lessons Learned from Preservice Teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students During a Pandemic. Cases on Teacher Preparation in Deaf Education. IGI Global. http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5834-1
  • Clark, M. D., Greene-Woods, A. N., Alofi, A., Sides, M., Buchanan, B., Hauschildt, S., Alford, A., Courson, F., & Venable T. (2021). The Spoken Language Checklist: A User-Friendly Normed Language Acquisition Checklist. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26(2), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enaa043

Recent Publications

  • Alford, A., Courson, F., Hill, J., Wimberley, M. B. (2020). A Virtual Visual Pedagogy: 3-D becomes 2-D. ReDEAFfining Academic Collaboration. 1(1), 18-25.

Recent Presentations

  • Edwards, S.E., Courson, F.F., Alford, A.D., & Bencak, J.M. (2022). Online mentoring with preservice teachers of K-12 DHH students using bilingual instructional strategies in literacy. Presented at the ACE-DHH conference. Omaha, NE.
  • Alford, A. (2021, December). Fostering Literacy in Middle and High School Deaf students. Presented at Louisiana School of the Deaf’s Outreach & Early Childhood Family Workshop Series. Online. 
  • Alford, A. (2021, June). Supporting Secondary Students at Home with Literacy. Family Week Retreat Professionals & Students. Statewide Outreach Center, Austin, TX
  • Alford, A. (2019, April). Literacy Strategies to Support your Child at Home. Improving Communication Parent Night, Katy Independent School District.
  • Alford, A. (2016, July). How can the Fresh Water Fish survive in the Ocean? Strategies to build independence in the mainstreamed setting. 51勛圖ProAssociation of Parents and Educators of the Deaf Statewide Conference.

Dissertation Focus

  • Early language acquisition and cognitive development
  • Contemporary early intervention practices for DHH infants

Andrea Alford