Hometown

• Huntsville, Texas

Current Employment

• Lecturer, Sam Houston State University
• Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama. 

Education

• M.A. in Sign Language Education, Gallaudet University
• B.A. in Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University

Research Interests

• Disability Oppression

• Language Deprivation

• ASL and Deaf Culture in Speech Pathology Department

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Buchanan, B. J., Pirone, J. S., Pudans‐Smith, K. K., Leffler, B. W., Cohen, B. S., Simmons, P. K., Ballentine, P. M., Venable, T., & Soza, K. (2023). American Sign Language Level 1 assessment: What is out there? Foreign Language Annals. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12717

• 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 Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Presentations

• N/A

Dissertation Focus

• ASL required within the Speech Pathology and Audiology Programs