Category: Announcements

  • Scholars Convene At Moody College For Bilingual Symposium

    Scholars Convene At Moody College For Bilingual Symposium

    Scholars and students from across the country convened at the Moody College of Communication May 8-10, 2016  to participate in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders’ bilingual symposium and research blitz to further work in the field of bilingual language acquisition, including Dr. Karen Emmorey. Read more here.

  • Congratulations To Kristen Secora For Defending Her Dissertation!

    On April 25, 2016, Kristen Secora defended her dissertation, “The impact of individual differences in social skills and executive control on visual-spatial perspective-taking in signers and nonsigners” to earn her doctoral degree! Congratulations, Dr. Secora! Congratulations on a fantastic dissertation and an extremely successful graduate career! I am proud of you and your accomplishments, and…

  • April 18 – Lecture by Dr. Gabrielle Jones!

    April 18 – Lecture by Dr. Gabrielle Jones!

    LLCN welcomes Dr. Gabrielle Jones, Assistant Professor in Department of Education Studies at UCSD, as our next LLCN Lecture speaker on Monday, April 18th at noon in our lab. Lecture will be in ASL without interpretation. Gabrielle Jones, PhD Assistant Professor Education Studies University of California in San Diego “Learning to read Chinese from a…

  • LLCN welcomed attendees of the EHDI annual meeting to tour the lab and learn about our research.

    LLCN welcomed attendees of the EHDI annual meeting to tour the lab and learn about our research.

    Attendees of the 2016 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Meeting held in San Diego toured LLCN and met with researchers to learn more about our innovative research and its implications to help deaf children to read.        

  • LLCN participates in the AAAS Family Science Days, February 13-14th in Washington, D.C.

    LLCN participates in the AAAS Family Science Days, February 13-14th in Washington, D.C.

    LLCN participates in the AAAS Family Science Days, February 13-14th in Washington, D.C. as part of the Linguistic Society of America. Family Science Days exhibitors bring their favorite hands-on science activities to share with all attendees. You use language all the time, but what do you know about how it actually works? See what speech looks…

  • Researchers honored for 10 years of service to SDSU!

    Researchers honored for 10 years of service to SDSU!

    Congratulations to Dr. Karen Emmorey, Distinguished Professor and Laboratory Director, Dr. Stephen McCullough (pictured), Lucinda O’Grady Farnady (pictured), and Allison Bassett for 10 years of service to SDSU and the SDSU Research Foundation!

  • Congratulations, Dr. Zed Sevcikova!

    Congratulations to Dr. Zed Sevcikova on receiving the “Best Presentation by an Early Career Researcher” awarded by Sign Language Linguistics Society (SLLS) for her poster “ASL-LEX: A lexical database for American Sign Language” (pdf) presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR12) conference in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Isidore Niyongabo Presents on October 21, 2015 as Part Of Our Fall Lecture Series!

    Fall LLCN Lecture Series speaker, Isidore Niyongabo, gives a presentation on “The Complexity and Dynamics of Sign Language use in the East African Deaf Leadership Conference” on Wednesday, October 21st, Noon.  Light refreshments will be severed. Open to the public. This presentation will be in ASL without English interpretation. RSVP to cogrady@sdsu.edu

  • September 10 – Open House Anniversary Party!

    September 10 – Open House Anniversary Party!

    Please join Dr. Karen Emmorey and her research staff on Thursday, September 10, 2015, as LLCN celebrates its 10 year anniversary! Celebrating 10 Years Open House Anniversary Party Thursday, September 10, 2015 3-6 pm LLCN 6495 Alvarado Road Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92120 Light refreshments will be served. See the official flyer for details (pdf).…

  • Gabriela Meade, Ph.D. Student in Language and Communicative Disorders, named Presidential Graduate Research Fellow

    Gabriela Meade is a new student in our Ph.D. in Language and Communicative Disorders program and one of six Presidential Graduate Research Fellows starting at SDSU this fall.  The competitive, merit-based campus program supports the recruitment of exceptional non-resident applicants to SDSU’s many graduate programs. See the full article on SDSU NewsCenter!