Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

College of Fine Arts and Communication

Andrea Alford

Doctoral Student
Email: aalford3@lamar.edu

Hometown

  • Cypress, Texas

Current Employment

  • Coordinator of Deaf Education, Vision, and Assistive Technology (West 10 Regional Day School Program for the Deaf, Katy ISD)

Education

  • LU Certification program for Educational Administration, Lamar University
  • M.S. in Deaf Education, Texas Woman's University
  • B.S. in Communication Disorders, Texas Woman's University

Research Interests

  • Early language acquisition and early intervention
  • Deaf education instructional practices
  • Cognitive psychology

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Courson, F. F., Alford, A. D., Bencak J. M., & Edwards, S. G. (2023). Lessons Learned from Preservice Teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students During a Pandemic. Cases on Teacher Preparation in Deaf Education. IGI Global. http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5834-1
  • Clark, M. D., Greene-Woods, A. N., Alofi, A., Sides, M., Buchanan, B., Hauschildt, S., Alford, A., Courson, F., & Venable T. (2021). The Spoken Language Checklist: A User-Friendly Normed Language Acquisition Checklist. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26(2), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enaa043

Recent Publications

  • Alford, A., Courson, F., Hill, J., Wimberley, M. B. (2020). A Virtual Visual Pedagogy: 3-D becomes 2-D. ReDEAFfining Academic Collaboration. 1(1), 18-25.

Recent Presentations

  • Edwards, S.E., Courson, F.F., Alford, A.D., & Bencak, J.M. (2022). Online mentoring with preservice teachers of K-12 DHH students using bilingual instructional strategies in literacy. Presented at the ACE-DHH conference. Omaha, NE.
  • Alford, A. (2021, December). Fostering Literacy in Middle and High School Deaf students. Presented at Louisiana School of the Deaf’s Outreach & Early Childhood Family Workshop Series. Online. 
  • Alford, A. (2021, June). Supporting Secondary Students at Home with Literacy. Family Week Retreat Professionals & Students. Statewide Outreach Center, Austin, TX
  • Alford, A. (2019, April). Literacy Strategies to Support your Child at Home. Improving Communication Parent Night, Katy Independent School District.
  • Alford, A. (2016, July). How can the Fresh Water Fish survive in the Ocean? Strategies to build independence in the mainstreamed setting. Texas Association of Parents and Educators of the Deaf Statewide Conference.

Dissertation Focus

  • Early language acquisition and cognitive development
  • Contemporary early intervention practices for DHH infants

Andrea Alford