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👋 Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Latest! Since this is my first venture into the email newsletter sphere, I’m very much in a place of curiosity about what to share. Reach out if there is something you want to read, know more about, or to subscribe! This newsletter is…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon will present her paper, "Myth Busting With Data: Longitudinal Models of Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Deaf Students," at the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Diego on April 21-26 — the world's largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking,…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is scheduled to present at the ITLC Lilly Online Conference, which in 2022 is dedicated to enhancing and sharing scholarly approaches to online, onsite, and hybrid teaching and learning. Dr. Stephanie Cawthon announces her 2022 ITLC Lilly Online Conference presentations. (English translation: Amanda Katz) The online conference…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon has long served as the Director of Research and Evaluation for Drama for Schools, an arts integration professional development program housed in the Department of Theater and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. Her collaboration with Associate Professor Katie Dawson has taken them both across…

This is part of a series of HDCLS area chair updates by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, written for Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.Author’s Note: At the time…

I am very pleased to share the final outcomes of what has been a year-long passion project: The 2022 Model State Plan for Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Deaf People. Together with an infographic that highlights top priorities in the field, this 111-page report charts an ambitious and proactive leap forward…

In one of the earliest pieces in a new journal, Future Review: The International Journal of Transition, College, and Career Success, Dr. Stephanie Cawthon and her coauthors penned an article called “generative for researchers interested in accessibility” by the journal editor in the issue’s foreword. Dr. Cawthon considers the article, Measuring…

Dr. Shirin Antia died on February 6th, 2022. I can’t believe I wrote that sentence. Shirin has been a part of my academic life since I had an academic life. She was at my first professional conferences in the US (AERA in New Orleans, 2000) and internationally (ICED in Australia, same…

Education, like many of our social structures, is in a period of reckoning as it strives to become more equitable. Our educational institutions — both K-12 and higher education — have received calls to action to become more inclusive, amplify marginalized perspectives, and address historical biases against many in our…

This is part of a series of HDCLS area chair updates by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, written for Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.Does anyone else feel like…