Doug Williams

Instructor
Office: Communication Building, Room 109
Email:dwilliams162@lamar.edu

Education

  • B.A. in English Literature: Missouri State University, 2014
  • Ed.M. in Diversity and Equity in Education: University of Illinois - Urbana, 2019
  • M.A. in Deaf Education: Flagler College, 2020

Courses Taught

  • Interpreting for Diverse Deaf Communities
  • Interactive Interpreting
  • Interpreting Subjects (K-12)

Research Interests

  • Deaf Anthropology
  • Deaf Psychology
  • Parent-Child Interaction and Child Development
  • Textual Literacy Development in d/D/HH Learners
  • Early Intervention for d/D/HH Children
  • Relationships Between Educational Neuroscience, Language/Textual Literacy Development, and d/D/HH Learners

Recent Publications

  • Williams Jr., D. C. (2022). Bilingualism, deafness, and literacy: Four assumptions and four responses. In M. Musyoka (Ed.), Deaf education and challenges for bilingual/multilingual students (pp. 184-203). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8181-0.ch008

Recent Presentations

  • Williams, D. (2022, February). Calling All 'Unicorns': Men in Educational Sign Language Interpreting and Deaf Education. [Poster presentation]. Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Omaha, NE.  
  • Williams, D. (2021, June). Re-reading strategies and reading comprehension in deaf learners. [Conference session]. Deaf Education Alliance Summit, Baton Rogue, LA.