Deaf Studies
Signed Languages, Interpreting and Teaching
- Dr. Lorraine Leeson
- Mr. Pat Mathews
- Dr. John Bosco Conama
- Ms. Carmel Grehan
- Ms. Teresa Lynch
Research Areas
CDS is actively involved in a wide range of research. Individual lecturers pursue research strands in a range of areas as listed below, and as a team, we are also actively involved in a number of Irish government and EU funded projects.
- The linguistics of signed languages
- The sociolinguistics of signed languages
- Child Language Acquisition - for spoken and signed languages
- Interpreting Research
- Language Teaching
- Teaching ISL as L1
- Teaching ISL as L2
- European Language Portfolio Project work
- Deaf Culture
- Equality Studies
- Social Policy and Deafness
- Deaf Education