Susan Easterbrooks, Ed.D.

Professor

Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, GA 30302-3979

EDUCATION:

• Ed. D., University of Georgia, 1983                                                                         Center on Literacy and Deafness
• M.M.Sc., Emory University, 1974
• B.S., University of Connecticut, 1972

MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Language, literacy and learning in deaf children

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Easterbrooks, S., & Beal-Alvarez, J. (in progress, 2012). Literacy acquisition in students who are deaf and hard of hearing. A book in the Oxford University Press Series, Professional Perspectives on Deafness:  Evidence and Applications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Easterbrooks, S.R., & Estes, E. (2007). Helping Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children to Use Spoken Language. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press.

Easterbrooks, S.R. & Baker, S. (2002). Language instruction of students who are deaf and hard of hearing: Multiple pathways. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Chapters

Easterbrooks, S. (2010). Educational practices and literacy development during the school years. In M. Marschark & P. Spencer (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Vol. 2.(pp. 11-126). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Articles

Beal-Alvarez, J., Lederberg, A. R., & Easterbrooks, S. R. (2012). Grapheme-phoneme acquisition of deaf preschoolers. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 17(1), 39-60.

Cannon, J., Swozowski, N., Gallagher, P., & Easterbrooks, S. (2012). A program evaluation of an inclusive model for training pre-service general education teachers to work with students with special needs. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, Spring/Summer 2012.

Easterbrooks, S., & Beal-Alvarez, J. (Spring, 2012). States’ reading outcomes of students who are deaf or hard of hearing, American Annals of the Deaf,

Cannon, J. E., Easterbrooks, S. R., Gagne, P., & Beal-Alvarez, J. (2011). Improving DHH students' grammar through an individualized software program. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 16(4):437-57.

Thagard, E.K., Hilsmier, A.S., & Easterbrooks, S.R. (2011). Pragmatic language in students who are deaf and hard of hearing: Correlation with success in general education. American Annals of the Deaf, 155(5), 516-34.

Easterbrooks, S., Lederberg, A., & Connor, C. (2010). Contributions of the emergent literacy environment to literacy outcomes in deaf preschool-aged children. American Annals of the Deaf, 155(4), 467-480.

Cannon, J., Easterbrooks, S., & Fredrick, L. (2010). Vocabulary acquisition through books in ASL by student with hearing loss from non-English speaking homes. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 31(2), 98-112.