Faculty and Staff

Jody H. Cripps, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D.: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona
• M.A.: Sign Language Studies, Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona
• B.A.: Sociology and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University

Courses Taught

• Linguistics of ASL
• American Sign Language I, II, III, IV
• Deaf History
• Literature in the Deaf Community
• Deaf Culture
• Development of Signed Language and Reading Skills for Deaf Children

Professional/ Research Interests

• Reading process in deaf children
• Language acquisition
• Educational and signed language linguistics

Recent Publications

• Supalla, S. J. & Cripps, J. H. (2011). Towards Universal Design in reading instruction. Billingual Basics, 12 (2).                                                                                                                        Click here for article (PDF)

• Supalla, S. J. & Cripps, J. H. (2008). Linguistic accessibility and deaf children. In B. Spolsky & F. Hult (Eds.), The handbook of educational linguistics (pp. 174-191). Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Cripps, J. H. & Supalla, S. J. (2007). Exploring a new avenue of assessment with deaf children. Proceedings of the 2006 Deaf Studies Today Conference (pp. 39-51). Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT.
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• Cripps, J. H., McBride, K. A., & Forster, K. I. (2005). Lexical processing with deaf and hearing: Phonology and orthographic masked priming. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 12 , 31-44. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.
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• Supalla, S. J. & Cripps, J. H. (2004). Learning to read without sound. In R. W. Marx (Ed.), Educational research: Practice & policy (pp. 2-3 & 10). Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona, College of Education.
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• Cripps, J. H. & Supalla, S. J. (2004). Modifications to the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Picture Vocabulary Test for use with signing deaf students. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 11 , 93-113. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.
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Selected Presentations

• Cooper, S. B. & Cripps, J. H. (2011). Service learning: Deaf Studies in the community. Paper presented at ASLTA 2011 Conference, Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA (June 20, 2011).

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• Cripps, J. H. & Supalla, S. J. (2011). Universal Design in Reading Instruction: Considerations for Deaf Students. Paper presented at TESOL 2011 Conference: Examining the 'E' in TESOL, New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, LA (March 18, 2011).

• Cripps, J. H. (2010). A Cross-linguistic Reading Program for Signing Deaf Children. Symposium paper presented at International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (July 19, 2010).

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• Cripps, J. H., Supalla, S. J., & Blackburn, L. A. (2010). The Preliminary Look at the Model Reading Program Under Development. Paper presented at International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (July 19, 2010).

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• Cripps, J. H., Supalla, S. J., & Blackburn, L. A. (2010). A Closer Look at the Reading Process for Deaf Students Who Sign. Paper presented at International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (July 19, 2010).

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• Blackburn, L. A., Supalla, S. J., & Cripps, J. H. (2010). What is Gloss? Invited co-presenter at MacMurray College Speaker Series, William H. Springer Center for Music - Thoresen Recital Hall, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL (January 28, 2010).

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• Cripps, J. H. , Supalla, S. J., & Blackburn, L. A. (2009). Written language approach: Supporting deaf children's learning of English through American Sign Language. Paper presented at Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century: Sixth International Conference on Language Teacher Education, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (May 29, 2009).
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• Cripps, J. H. , Supalla, S. J., & Blackburn, L. A. (2009). An examination of an alternative curriculum and assessment for deaf students who sign. Paper presented at Council of American Instructors of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (June 25, 2009).
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• Supalla, S. J., Cripps, J. H. , & McKee, C. (2008). Revealing 'sound' in the signed medium through an alphabetic system. Poster session presented at the SignTyp Conference: The phonetics and phonology of sign language, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (June 26-28, 2008).
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• Cripps, J. H. (2009). Oral reading and deaf students who sign. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI (January 6, 2009).
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