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Welcome to DCAL
Meet Kearsy Cormier, the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), as she warmly welcomes you to the world of DCAL’s innovative research. DCAL boasts a multidisciplinary team of experts from fields such as linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience. They are committed to investigating how deaf individuals engage with, comprehend, and learn languages, as well as understanding the cognitive processes unique to deaf people. The research conducted at DCAL has been groundbreaking, shedding light on language processing in the brain, the influence of language variation on sign language structure, and how language is processed by both deaf children and adults. These insights are not only integral for advancing the scientific knowledge in this domain but are also invaluable in informing educational practices and clinical interventions tailored for the deaf community. Explore DCAL's website to learn more about their mission and groundbreaking discoveries.
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6/8/2023
2017 DCAL Xmas Newsletter - Robert Adam - Impact
DCAL’s research is continuing to change people lives. Over the last decade we have developed many tests of language and cognition for deaf people, both adults and children. In spring 2016, we launched our DCAL Assessment Portal – which makes our tests available to clinicians, educators and researchers all over the UK. We have also had substantial international interest and hope that some of our tests will be adapted into other sign languages in future. Our work developing cognitive tests for dementia, directly led to a new Cognitive Disorders Clinic for Deaf patients at UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. Deaf people who are concerned about their memory or thinking can be referred by their GP from all over the UK. In the clinic, we use several cognitive tests developed through our research. In 2017 we received the exciting news that NHS England are going to fund this clinic on an on going basis. This is a huge achievement in the current economic climate,
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12/5/2017
2017 DCAL Xmas Newsletter - Robert Adam - CPD Courses
In 2017 we have been working hard to develop the summer schools on offer at DCAL, introducing new short courses and promoting our online Deaf Awareness course (URL). Due to growth in the CPD demand, Manjula Patrick, the Centre Administrator at DCAL and Robert Adam are now working together as co-Directors of Continuing Professional Development. In May we had a group of students from the University of Pittsburgh visit for a 3 week summer school. They learnt BSL, and visited Frank Barnes School and the Action on Hearing Loss Library at UCL. The students loved it so much, the University is bringing a larger group in 2018. We plan to offer these courses to other universities in the future. We are also developing plans for a Deafness and Sign Language Research Skills Summer School (July 2018). There will be more information about this on the website soon. Our bespoke courses continue to be in demand. We have organised workshops on a range of topics, ...
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12/5/2017
2017 DCAL Xmas Newsletter - Robert Adam - Teaching
At DCAL we offer a number of modules to undergraduate and graduate students at UCL, including Linguistics of Sign Languages; Deafness: Cognition and Language; Introduction to Deafhood; Interaction and Language Management of Interpreting; Historical and Social Context of Interpreting; Live captioning (from 2018). To find out more about teaching check out website. UCL is the only UK university that requires that all undergraduate students enter with or gain a certain level of competence in a Modern Foreign Language (MFL). We campaigned for UCL to recognise BSL as a language to meet this MFL requirement, and this was approved in July 2017.
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12/5/2017
2017 DCAL Xmas Newsletter - Robert Adam - Research
Our research into how the deafness and language experience influence brain function has resulted in a couple of important papers this year (Twomey et al., Journal of Neuroscience; Cardin et al, Cerebral Cortex). Mairead MacSweeney’s group have also continued their research into the role of lipreading in reading development in deaf children. Kearsy Cormier was appointed as a Reader in the UCL Linguistics Department. She was also awarded two research grants this year. Robert Adam has presented a number of keynote lectures this year. Bencie Woll has enjoyed stepping down from the Directorship of DCAL but has kept busy with a new research project on the cognitive benefits of language learning (both signed and spoken language).
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12/4/2017
2017 DCAL Xmas Newsletter - Mairéad MacSweeney - Intro
2017 has been a busy year and a year of change. Our funding from the government, from the ESRC, came to an end in December 2016. Since then DCAL staff have been supported by UCL and we have been applying for lots of research grants. This newsletter has an update on the many exciting things that we’ve done this year – including research, teaching, CPD and impact. It’s been a great year. Many thanks for your support. We hope that 2018 will be even better!
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12/4/2017
Welcome video to DCAL website from Director Mairéad MacSweeney
Welcome video to DCAL website from Director Mairéad MacSweeney. It describes the centre main goals and research lines. DCAL is unique research centre that it brings together researchers from different backgrounds – psychologists, linguists and neuroscientists. We investigate what we can learn about cognition, language and the brain from people born deaf and also those who use a signed language such as BSL.
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11/30/2017