Centre for Deaf Studies, Dublin

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The Centre for Deaf Studies is part of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and is the only university offering Deaf Studies related courses on the island of Ireland.

The Centre originally offered a range of 2 year full time Diploma courses in (i) ISL Teaching, (ii) ISL/English Interpreting and (iii) Deaf Studies. Since 2009, a 4 year honors Bachelor in Deaf Studies has been running. Students follow a common two year programme, specializing in Deaf Studies or Interpreting or Teaching in the sophister years (third and fourth).

History

Established in 2001, it was originally located at Waterloo Lane, Dublin 4. By 2003, more space was needed and the Centre moved to the first floor of St. Vincent's Centre for the Deaf, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, where it remained until 2010. In autumn 2010, the Centre moved to its new home at 7-9 Leinster Street South, a College owned premises.

Research

The Centre has engaged in a wide range of research activity in its decade to date. Work includes the development of the Signs of Ireland corpus, a digital multimodal corpus annotated in ELAN. The Signs of Ireland corpus is used in teaching and learning at the Centre and was the basis for Lorraine Leeson and John Saeed's volume describing the linguistic and sociolinguistic situation of Irish Sign Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Other work has centered on the application of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to ISL teaching and assessment, the assessment of interpreters, deaf education, interpreters in educational contexts, interpreters in medical contexts, interpreters in mental health settings, etc.

Staff

  • Director: Professor Lorraine Leeson
  • Dr. John Bosco Conama, Assistant Professor & Coordinator - Bachelor in Deaf Studies
  • Ms. Carmel Grehan, Assistant Professor & Coordinator - Junior Freshman Courses
  • Mr. Patrick A. Matthews, Assistant Professor & Coordinator - Senior Freshman Courses
  • Ms. Teresa Lynch, Assistant Professor
  • Ms. Sarah Sheridan, Assistant Professor

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