Doctoral Student
Email: jhill35@lamar.edu 

Hometown

• Lubbock, Texas

Current Employment

• ASL lecturer at Texas Tech University

Education

• M.A. in Sign Language Education, Gallaudet University
• B.A. in Deaf Studies & ASL Education, Utah Valley University

Research Interests

• Quality of educational interpreting in K-12
• Sign language benefits for implanted children and spoken language acquisition
• Sign language and cognitive benefits compared to spoken language only for deaf children on psychosocial outcomes
• Language acquisition benefits of ASL vs. Signed Systems
• Critical period and L1 language acquisition

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Presentations

• 32nd Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference Sample February 24-25, 2020: "The Impacts of Social Movement on Deaf Administrators in the past 7 years".

Dissertation Focus

• Deaf Perspectives on Educational Interpreting