Hearing And Deafness

Peter V. Paul, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education & Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. One of his major responsibilities is teacher education for individuals interested in the education of d/Deaf or hard of hearing students. Dr. Paul's research interests involve the areas of vocabulary, language, and literacy. He has published extensively on language and literacy development. His scholarly texts include Education and Deafness (1990), Toward a Psychology of Deafness (1993), Literacy and Deafness (1998), Language and Deafness (2009, 4th ed.), Reading and Deafness (2010; with B. Trezek and Y. Wang), and Hearing and Deafness (2011). Dr. Paul has conducted workshops for educators and parents on an international, national, state, and local level on topics in literacy and literate thought. He is the current Editor of the American Annals of the Deaf (established in 1847), the oldest professional journal in the field of deafness. Dr. Paul has received the College of Education Senior Research Award (2000) and the Richard and Laura Kretschmer National Leadership Award in Hearing Impairment (2010). Gail M. Whitelaw, PhD, is the Director of Clinical Instruction and Research in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University and the audiology faculty member on the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LEND) grant at the Nisonger Center at Ohio State. She is an audiologist that provides direct clinical services, supervises AuD students in their clinical practicum, and teaches courses in pediatric and educational audiology in the AuD program at Ohio State. She is frequently an invited presenter on topics of auditory processing, auditory development, room acoustics, and leadership development.