Beverly J. Buchanan

Doctoral Student
Email: BBuchanan2@lamar.edu

Hometown

• Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Current Employment

• Instructor, Department of Deaf Studies Deaf Education, Lamar University

Education

• M.A. in Sign Language Education, Gallaudet University, 2017
• M.S. in Deaf Education, McDaniel College, 1994
• B.A. in Biology, Gallaudet University, 1987

Research Interests

• Sign Language Proficiency
• Sign Language Documentation
• Bilingual Education
• Teacher training

Recent Publications

• 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 parent and teacher friendly normed language acquisition checklist. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26(2), 1-12. https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article-abstract/26/2/251/6130171?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Recent Presentations

• Buchanan, B., & Adam, R. (2021, June). Minority sign language shift in two countries: Canada (Maritime Sign Language and American Sign Language) and Australia (Australian Irish Sign Language and Auslan) Presentation at 10th International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference, Montreal, Canada

• Buchanan, B., & Adam, R. (2021, March). Minority Sign Language Shift within Majority Sign Language Communities. Presentation at the XVIII International Conference on Minority Languages Conference, Bilbao, Spain.

• Buchanan, B. (2019, November). Effective preparation of American Sign Language teachers. Presentation at American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Convention, Washington, D.C.

• Buchanan, B. (2019, June). Implicit Bias and Sign Languages. Presentation at Diversity University Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. 

• Simmons, P. & Buchanan, B. (2019, January). Is Sign Language a SuperPower for Deaf People? Exploration of Sign Language and Education of Deaf Children in the USA. Presentation at the Educating Children of Color Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Dissertation Focus

• Documentation of Maritime Sign Language, an endangered sign language in Canada.