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Amy R. Lederberg, Ph.D.

Professor


Room: 828
Phone: (404) 413-8313
Email: alederberg@gsu.edu
Vita


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


EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981                                                                   Center on Literacy and Deafness
  • M.A., University of Minnesota, 1977
  • B.A., Smith College, 1974


MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST:

  • Language and cognitive development
  • Emergent liteacy
  • Deafness

Recent Publications

Webb, M-Y, & Lederberg, A.R. (in press). Measuring phonological awareness in deaf and hard-of-hearing children, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Lederberg, A. R., Schick, B., & Spencer, P. E. (2013). Language and literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children: Successes and challenges. Developmental Psychology, 49(1), 15-30.

Miller, E. M.., Lederberg, A.R., & Easterbrooks, S. R. (2013). Phonological awareness: Explicit instruction of young deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 18, 206-227.

Stanzione, C., Perez, S., & Lederberg, A. R., (2013). Assessing aspects of creativity in deaf and hearing high school students. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 18, 228-241.

Lederberg, A.R., Schick, B. & Spencer, P. E. (2013). Language and literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children: Successes and challenges. Developmental Psychology, 49, 15-30.

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.

Heisner, M.B., & Lederberg, A.R. (2011). The impact of Child Development Associate training on the beliefs and practices of preschool teachers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26, 277-236.

Lederberg, A. R., & Beal-Alvarez, J. (2011). Expressing meaning: From communicative intent to building vocabulary (pp. 258-275). In M. Marschark & P. E. Spencer (Eds.), Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education, second edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Easterbrooks, S. R., Lederberg, A. R., & Connor, C. M. (2010). Contributions of the emergent literacy environment to literacy outcomes for young children who are deaf. American Annals of the Deaf, 155(4), 467-480.

Bergeron, J. P., Lederberg, A. R., Easterbrooks, S. R., Miller, E. M., & Connor, C. M. (2009). Building the alphabetic principle in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Volta Review, 109(2-3), 87-119.

Farran, L. K., Lederberg, A. R., & Jackson, L. A. (2009). Maternal input and lexical development: The case of deaf pre-schoolers. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(2), 145-163.

Lederberg, A. R., & Spencer, P. E. (2008). Word-learning abilities in deaf and hard-of-hearing preschoolers: Effect of lexicon size and language modality. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14(1), 44-62.

Easterbrooks, S. R., Lederberg, A. R., Miller, E. M., Bergeron, J. P., & Connor, C. M. (2008). Emergent literacy skills during early childhood in children with hearing loss: Strengths and weaknesses. Volta Review, 108(2), 91-114.

Tolar, T. D., Lederberg, A. R., Gokhale, S., & Tomasello, M. (2008). The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs. Journal of Deaf Studies And Deaf Education, 13(1), 71-86.

Tolar, T. D., Lederberg, A. R., & Fletcher, J. M. (2009). A structural model of algebra achievement: Computational fluency and spatial visualisation as mediators of the effect of working memory on algebra achievement. Educational Psychology, 29(2), 239-266.

Sargent, C. S., Borthick, A. F., Lederberg, A. L., & Haardörfer, R. (in press). A low-maintenance approach to improving retention:  short on-line tutorials in elementary statistics. Journal of College Student Retention:  Research, Theory & Practice, 15(1).

Sargent, C. W., Borthick, A.F., & Lederberg, A. R. (2011) Improving retention for principles of accounting students: Ultra-Short online tutorials for motivating effort and improving performance. Issues in Accounting Education, 26(4). 657-679. DOI:10.2308/iace-50001.

Currently Funded Grants

2012-2017 Institute of Education Sciences-US Dept of Education, $10,000,000. Center for Literacy and Deafness. Principal Investigator (co-PI Susan Easterbrooks (Georgia State University); Brenda Schick (University of Colorado-Boulder), Shirin Antia (University of Arizona); co-investigators: Paul Alberto, Lee Branum-Martin, Mi-Young Webb (Georgia Sate University) Poorna Kushalnagar (Rochester Institute of Technology), Carol Connor (Arizona State University).

2011-2014  Institute of Education Sciences, $1,616,185, Foundations for Literacy: An Intervention for Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Principal Investigator. (Susan Easterbrooks, co- investigator).

2007-2012 Institute of Education Sciences, $663,190, Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Language and Literacy Interventions with Special Populations. Co-Training Director (Rose Sevcik, Co-Training Director).