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

Professional/Research Interests

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

Recent Publications

• 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

• 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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