First convened in 1878, the International Congress of the Education of the Deaf (ICED) is one of the premier international forums for sharing evidence-based practices, research, and ideas.
Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is invited to be a plenary speaker at the 23rd ICED, to be held July 5-8, 2021, in Brisbane, Australia and online — joining other leading educators and researchers from around the world in the field of deaf education.
Her keynote, Shifting the Culture of Evidence in Deaf Education: Empowering Deaf People and Finding Your Call to Action, is on July 5, the opening day of the congress.
It draws upon her recent groundbreaking publications in the Review of Research in Education and the Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy, in which she calls for a paradigm shift in deaf education and research design, toward a deaf-centered approach that promotes greater equity and access for deaf people, builds from a deaf perspective, eliminates audism in research design, and addresses systemic barriers.
Dr. Cawthon will also address how essential it is to empower transition-age deaf youth with a design for lifelong success, not simply a standardized postsecondary checklist that perpetuates low expectations and poor outcomes. Throughout the keynote, she will challenge conference attendees to think about their roles in these critical issues and how they can find a calls to action in their own work.
She will present her keynote in American Sign Language with translations in English, Australian Sign Language, and International Sign Language.
ICED registration is open to all educators, professionals, and students. Special rates are available for early bird registration, those from developing countries, and students.