Jessica Williams
Interim Department Chair
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
585-475-2913
Jessica Williams
Interim Department Chair
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Education
BS, University of Georgia; M.Ed., Ph.D., Georgia State University
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Journal Paper
Williams, Jessica, Thomastine Sarchet, and Dawn Walton. "What Can Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing First-Year Community College Students Teach Us About Reading?" Communication Disorders Quarterly 46. 1 (2024): 0. Print.
Williams, Jessica, Thomastine Sarchet, and Dawn Walton. "What Can Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing First-Year Community College Students Teach Us About Reading?" Communication Disorders Quarterly. (2023): 0. Web.
Williams, Jessica, Thomastine Sarchet, and Dawn Walton. "Reading and writing instruction for academically at-risk deaf and hard of hearing first-year college students." Community College Review 50. 1 (2022): 30-50. Print.
Beal, Jennifer S., Jessica Williams Trussell, and Dawn Walton. "Four American Sign Language Learner Groups: Are They Really Different?" The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 27. 3 (2022): 283-296. Print.
Williams, Jessica, Thomastine Sarchet, and Dawn Walton. "Reading and writing instruction for academically at-risk deaf and hard of hearing first-year college students." Community College Review. (2021): in press. Print.
Beal, Jennifer S., Jessica W. Trussell, and Dawn Walton. "Incoming Deaf College Students' Sign Language Skills: Self-awareness and Intervention." Journal of Language, Identity & Education. (2021): 1-14. Web.
Beal, Jennifer S., Jessica W. Trussell, and Dawn Walton. "Incoming Deaf College Students' Sign Language Skills: Self-awareness and Intervention." Journal of Language, Identity & Education. (2021): 1-14. Web.
Trussell, Jessica W. "Learning social studies vocabulary via morphological instruction in the itinerant model." American Annals of the Deaf 165. 1 (2020): 52-71. Print.
Trussell, Jessica W., Thomastine Sarchet, and Dawn Walton. "Reading and Writing Instruction for Academically At-Risk Deaf and Hard of Hearing First-year College Students." Community College Review. (2020): in press. Print.
Beal, Jennifer S., Jessica W. Trussell, and Dawn Walton. "Incoming Deaf College Students' Sign Language Skills: Self-awareness and Intervention." Journal of Language, Identity & Education. (2020): in press. Print.
Schley, Sara and Jessica W. Trussell. "Deaf Students with Disabilities: A Functional Approach for Parents and Teachers." ODYSSEY. (2019): 76-80. Print.
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "Interactive Storybook Reading Instruction for Preschoolers Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Multiple Probe Across Behaviors Analysis." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 49. (2018): 922-937. Print.
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "Morphology Instruction in the Science Classroom for Students who are Deaf: A Multiple Probe Across Content Analysis." Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 23. 3 (2018): 271-283. Print.
Borgna, Georgianan, et al. "Numerical and Real-world Estimation Abilities of Deaf and Hearing College Students." Deafness & Education International 20. 2 (2018): 1-27. Print.
Beal, Jennifer S., et al. "University American Sign Language learners: Longitudinal self and faculty evaluation ratings." Journal of Interpretation 26. 1 (2018): 1-27. Web.
Walton, Dawn, et al. "I am not Unskilled and Unaware: Deaf and Hearing Learners’ Self-assessment of Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Skills." European Journal of Special Needs Education. (2018): 1-27. Web.
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "The Effects of Interactive Storybook Reading with Preschoolers Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing." Topics in Early Childhood Special Education 37. 3 (2017): 147-163. Print.
Trussell, Jessica W. and Susan R. Easterbrooks. "Morphological Knowledge and Students who are Deaf or Hard-of-hearing: A Review of the Literature." Communication Disorders Quarterly. (2016): 1-11. Web.
Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer and Jessica W. Trussell. "Classifiers and Constructed Action: Necessary Narrative Components in Deaf Adults' Storybook Renditions." Sign Language Studies 16. 1 (2015): 5-29. Print.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Williams, Jessica and Ruchi Gamta. "Preparing Educators to Teach Math to Community College-bound DHH Students." Association of College Educators- Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Association of College Educators- Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Las Vegas, NV, US. 2 Feb. 2024. Conference Presentation.
Williams, Jessica. "Interactive Storybook Reading." HATCH. Idaho State University. Boise, ID. 7 Sep. 2024. Keynote Speech.
Williams, Jessica. "Fostering STEM literate DHH students." Deaf Blind Limitless. Alabama Institute for the Deaf and BLind. Mobile, AL. 20 Mar. 2022. Conference Presentation.
Williasm, Jessica. "Purposeful texts and purposeful planning: Raising the bar for reading instruction." Deaf Blind Limitless. Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. Mobile, AL. 20 Mar. 2022. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W. and Camille Ouellette. "Reading to learn in STEM: Strategies for reading and conceptually accurate signing." California Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing conference. Cal Ed. Riverside, CA. 6 Apr. 2019. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W. "Decoding For Adolescent Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Readers." Teaching Deaf Learners Conference. Royal Dutch Kentalis. Amsterdam, NL. 24 Mar. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W. "Supporting Early Reading Skills at Home and School." Great Start 2017. Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. State College, PA. 23 Jun. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W. "Reading a Language You Can't Hear." Canadian Educators of the DHH Conference. Canadian Educators of the DHH Conference. Vancouver, BC. 20 Oct. 2017. Keynote Speech.
Uninvited Presentations
Luft, Pamela, Jessica Willams, and Dawn Walton. "Resources for Professionals who work with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students." Division on Career Development and Transition. Councel on Exceptional Children. Reno, NV. 18 Oct. 2023. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "Interactive Storybook Reading and Picture Vocabulary: A Replication Study." Association of College Educators- Deaf/Hard of Hearing Conference. Association of College Educators- Deaf/Hard of Hearing. New York City, NY. 14 Feb. 2016. Conference Presentation.
Trussell, Jessica W. "Literacy and Evidence-Based Practices In Deaf Education." The 29th Annual ESSP Conference. Education Support Service Personnel. Corning, NY. 14 Nov. 2015. Conference Presentation.
Invited Paper
Basas, Michella, et al. "It’s Time to Rethink Our Future: “Radical” Perspectives on Deaf Education in the United States and Beyond." American Annals of the Deaf. (2023). Print.
Grants
Williams, Jessica and Thomastine Sarchet (2021-2022). Summer Transition Education Program (STP) 2021. Grant received/funded by Foundation Funding, Daisy Marquis Jones.
Nordhaus, Jason and Jessica W. Trussell (2018-2023). Lost in Translation: Removing the Most Significant Barrier Preventing Deaf participation in STEM. Grant proposal submitted to Special Projects, Moore Foundation.
Trussell, Jessica W. (2018-2021). Improving Reading Outcomes of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing. Grant proposal submitted to NCSER Goal 2 Development and Innovation under Reading, Writing, and Language topic - Research Training Program in Special Education: Early Career Development and Mentoring, Institute of Education Sciences.
Trussell, Jessica W. (2018-2020). Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. Grant proposal submitted to NIDCD, NIH.
Trussell, Jessica W. (2017-2020). Improving Reading Outcomes of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing. Grant proposal submitted to Research Training Program in Special Education: Early Career Development and Mentoring 84.324B, Institute of Educational Sciences.
Trussell, Jessica W. (2016-2017). Morphology Instruction for DHH Students. Grant received/funded by Scholarship Portfolio Development Initiative (SPDI), Internal Funding- NTID.
Manuscripts Submitted for Publication
Alonzo, Oliver, et al. "Methods for evaluating the fluency of automatically simplified Texts with deaf and hard-of-hearing adults at various literacy levels." 21 Sep. 2021. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W. and Jason Nordhaus. "Effects of Metacognitive Reading Strategy on Retell Ability: A Replication Study." 10 Nov. 2020. TS - typescript (typed).
Alonzo, Oliver, et al. "Comparision for Methods for Evaluating Complexity of Simplified Texts among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals at Different Literacy Levels." 2 Sep. 2020. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W. "Learning Social Studies Vocabulary via Morphological Instruction in the Itinerant Model." 19 Sep. 2019. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "Morphology Instruction in the Science Classroom For Students Who Are Deaf: A Multiple Probe Across Content Analysis." Jul. 2017. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "The Effects of Interactive Storybook Reading with Preschoolers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing." 16 Aug. 2016. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W., et al. "The Effects of Interactive Storybook Reading on the Word Meaning Knowledge of Preschoolers’ who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing." 6 Oct. 2016. TS - typescript (typed).
Trussell, Jessica W. and Susan R. Easterbrooks. "Morphological Knowledge and Students who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing: A Review of the Literature." In Press. TS - typescript (typed).
Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer, Nanci Sheetz, and Jessica W. Trussell. "Longitudinal American Sign Language Skills of Pre-Service Interpreter and Teacher Candidates." 30 Nov. 2015. TS - typescript (typed).
Book Chapter
Cannon, Joanna E. and Jessica W. Trussell. "Connections, Research, and Recommendations for the Importance of Morphosyntax in Literacy Acquisition across Languages for Learners who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing." "The Oxford Handbook on Literacy for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing." New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. 0. Print.
Trussell, Jessica W. and M. Christina Rivera. "Word identification and the adolescent deaf and hard-of-hearing reader: Going back to learning to read." "Evidence-based practice in deaf education." New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. 237-262. Print.
Easterbrooks, Susan R., Joanna Cannon, and Jessica W. Trussell. "Many Languages, One Goal: The Future of Research and Practice in Language Mastery by Deaf Learners." "Educating Deaf Learners: Diverse Ways, One Goal." Ed. Marc Marschark, Venetta Lampropoulou, and Emmanouil Skordilis. New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 00-00. Print.
In the News
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April 4, 2019
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No longer lost in translation: Videos depicting complex scientific concepts break barriers for deaf STEM students
Research has revealed that people who learn English as a second language, including deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, are underrepresented in STEM fields because of academic language abilities required to compete in those disciplines. A new project at NTID is helping to break down those obstacles specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
