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Multilingual families

Children of migrant Deaf adults

Graduation (Image credit: Emily Pacheco) During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When…

Emily PachecoJune 16, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

The case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimore County, USA) about her 2018 paper, The…

Emily PachecoApril 28, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual families

Sign Language Brokering

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her 2021 book Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing…

Emily PachecoJuly 30, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual families

Between Deaf and hearing cultures

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her 2023 memoir, The House With All The Lights…

Emily PachecoJune 1, 2024

Next Gen Literacies

Auslan in Australia: Fighting for a Voice

Auslan interpreter Stephen Nicholson gained prominence in Tasmania during Covid (Image credit: The Advocate) When you think about Australia’s linguistic diversity, which languages come to mind? Based on the nation’s…

Natalie DavisDecember 13, 2023

Language and law

Forgotten and invisible? The legal protection of refugees with disabilities

Before starting my PhD in sociolinguistics at Macquarie University, I had the great privilege of being involved in a research project that was run out of Sydney Law School at…

Laura Smith-KhanSeptember 11, 2017

Language and law

We all have a culture, we all speak a language: the Australian legal system discusses diversity

Panel on Representing Culturally Diverse Clients Cultural Diversity and the Law: Access to justice in multicultural Australia was a conference held in Sydney on the 13th and 14th of March.…

Laura Smith-KhanApril 22, 2015

Language learning

Some bilingualisms are more equal than others

International symbol for deafness from Redeafined Bilingualism has been a media darling of late, and considering the intense focus of the current scientific community on bilingual brains and the breakneck…

Sara BlažićJune 25, 2012

Children of migrant Deaf adults

The case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers

Sign Language Brokering

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