Kathryn Crowe

Institution

University of Iceland

Speech-Language Pathology

Research Interests

Kathryn’s research has focused on cultural and linguistic diversity in children, particularly in with hearing loss and their families. Kathryn’s current work is exploring linguistic and cognitive factors which inform how we teach d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) learners and supporting multilingual learners, particularly multilingual learners who are DHH. She is currently involved with projects examining semantic skills, speech and sign production, categorization, vision loss, dual sensory loss, and interventions to increase language skills. Her other areas of research interest include speech acquisition in typically hearing children who speak different languages, differential diagnosis of speech and language disorder in multilingual children, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), United Nations Sustainable Development goals, and use evidence-informed practice for speech-language pathologists and educators.

Topics to speak on:

d/Deaf multilingual learners

Biography

Kathryn Crowe is a researcher at the University of Iceland, and holds concurrent affiliations with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University (Australia), and The University of Toronto. Kathryn holds qualifications in speech-language pathology, linguistics, special education (sensory disability) and interpreting. She has worked as a clinical speech pathologist, academic, and researcher in a range of early childhood, school-aged, and tertiary settings. She has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, Denmark, and Iceland. She is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship awardee (2016-2017), and member of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech and the Immigrant Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students as Additional Language Learners (IDeALL) group.