Research Assistantships

[Philip M. Prinz]

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Research Assistantships
Multimedia Assessment of American Sign Language (ASL) for Deaf Students

    Two part-time research assistantships are available for graduate
students interested in working on an exciting research project targeting the
Multimedia Assessment of American Sign Language (ASL) for deaf students. The
research project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education
and the assistantships are available for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 Academic
Years. The positions require fluency in ASL and involve the administration
and scoring of a new test of ASL, collection and analysis of sign language
data at several schools for the deaf.
    Graduate students who apply to the Joint Doctoral Program in Special
Education, offered jointly between the University of California, Berkeley
(UCB) and San Francisco State University (SFSU) will be elgible to apply for
the assistantships. The program draws on the strengths of both universities
in developing leaders and research specialists in the field of atypical
development and learning. Students select an area of academic specialization
in both special and general education. Faculty and program resources on the
two campuses are used to develop advanced knowledge of theory and research
in an area of exceptionality. Specializations include human development;
language and literacy; mathematics, science, and technology; educational
policy and administration; and other areas selected by students in
consultation with faculty advisers. In the program, students develop three
areas of emphasis or specialization. One of the areas of emphasis may be
³Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics² which relates the study of
language behavior, its development and use by children and adolescents to
atypical development and exceptionality, with a particular focus on
linguistic and cognitive differences and their social, psychological and
neurological correlates. The program emphasis covers the study of language
development across various modalities: spoken, signed and written and
includes information on American Sign Language (ASL) as well as
alternative/augmentative communication.
    The deadline to apply for the Joint Doctoral Program in Special
Education for admission in fall 2004 is December 16, 2003. For additional
information on the Joint Doctoral Program please see this website:
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/program/sped/sped.html.

Students must apply for admission on both the UC Berkeley and SFSU campuses..
Application information and forms are available online:

Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley:
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/admin/sas/pdfdownload.html

Department of Special Education, San Francisco State University:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~spedcd/programs/sped/jd.htm
For more information about the Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics
Emphasis and the research assistantships, please contact:

Dr. Philip Prinz
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