This webinar will be hosted via Zoom for national and international attendees on Thursday, June 5, 2025 from 7-9 pm ET.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial disclosures: Dr. Lee is receiving an honorarium for this presentation.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Dr. Lee has no relevant nonfinancial disclosures.

Course Description:

Language deprivation is the lack of language exposure during a child’s age of acquisition which impacts language development, academic success, and cognitive capabilities. Children from marginalized communities are more likely to suffer from language deprivation and less likely to have instructors who share their cultural background. Transformative classrooms require staff to understand their own positionalities and recognize the intersectionalities of their students. To create these spaces, teachers must take a balcony approach to recognize systemic barriers, biases, and deficit thinking that can negatively affect their students. A culturally responsive classroom can be built using approaches that honor each student. Doctoral research centering the lived experiences and recommendations of BIPOC Deaf practitioners of the Deaf anchor this presentation through a critical framework.

Agenda

7:00-7:30: Positionality & Intersectionality

7:30-8:00: What is Language Deprivation and who is impacted?

8:00-8:30: Deaf Classroom Data

8:30-8:45: Culturally Responsive Classroom

8:45-9:00: Q&A

Learner Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe two ramifications of language deprivation on the academic achievement of DHH students.

2. Identify their own positionality and recognize at least one potential influence of that positionality in the classroom.

3. Create at least one strategy that they can bring to their classrooms to create safe, welcoming classrooms for their multicultural students.

Registration information:

This is a digital purchase only; no physical ticket is provided. A form will populate for you to complete your registration and then your purchase will be added to your cart in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You will receive an email with instructions on how to participate as well as a Google Calendar invite with the Zoom link one week prior to the event. Registration ends one day prior to the webinar. All registrants will receive a copy of the presenter’s PowerPoint and the presentation recording. Please email info@language1st.org with any questions.