Holiday party hosts need to ensure everyone can take part in the celebrations, says Pam Millett, an audiologist and an associate professor in the Faculty of Education with more than 30 years of experience working with children and adults with hearing loss. Senior citizens, for example, may experience hearing loss due to the natural aging […]
"When my mom was in elementary school, her best friend went missing. About six years ago, they were reconnected and my mom began to learn her story. At the age of 14, my mom’s friend was trafficked for sex in Ontario, Canada. When I heard her story, I was shocked and heartbroken. I began asking questions and started doing research to better understand the realities of human trafficking. I was compelled to fight this injustice and to find ways to prevent other people from being trafficked.
This past academic term, professor Mario Di Paolantonio was invited by the Philosophy and Education program at Columbia University's Teachers College, to give a talk titled “Education in Abject Conditions: Survival, Survivance and Education in Spite of it All.”
When Cécile Santos-Ayrault’s baby son was diagnosed with hearing loss, she became intensely interested in the treatment he was receiving. In order to better understand what he was going through, she decided to attend the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program in the Faculty of Education at York University. The program better equipped […]
Professor Connie Mayer has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in Human Communications, Development and Hearing with the School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The appointment is from September 2018 to September 2021 and is in recognition of the ongoing […]
There are only three educational institutions in Canada where one can acquire qualifications to teach deaf and hard of hearing students. York University’s Faculty of Education is one of them. Sheena Vert completed her Bachelor of Education degree at York and applied to the Faculty’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program (Deaf Ed). […]
The vast majority of students with hearing loss today using hearing technologies such as hearing aids, cochlear implants or bone anchored hearing aids, they use spoken language for communication and they are educated in their neighbourhood schools alongside hearing peers.
Four York University professors with the Faculty of Education have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants—collectively totaling $570,474. Connie Mayer will receive $184,311 for her research Literacy Outcomes of Deaf Learners: Updating the Evidence Base. Theresa Shanahan will receive $151,788 to investigate Policy Enactment in Ontario Schools: Teacher Professionalism in […]
A number of our Faculty members will be presenting sessions at the CSSE Annual Conference at the University of Regina May 26 - 30, 2018. The full conference program is available online at https://bit.ly/2IV0iU5. SUNDAY MAY 27 9:45am - 11:00amLaura Wiseman (York), Karen Krasny (York), Eleanor Johnston (York)Encountering the Holocaust:Aesthetic and Ethical Questions of Representation […]
Earlier this spring Professor Qiang Zha spoke at the University of Toronto’s 12th annual Munk School Graduate Student Conference. Zha participated as a member of a panel discussion on the Unexpected Impacts of Intervention. More specifically he spoke to elements of his own research titling his talk The Trajectory of Educational Intervention in the International […]