Taylor Hallenbeck, Deafness/Hard of Hearing - University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Taylor is a certified Teacher of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing. She has been attending the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since the fall of 2015. As of the spring of 2018 she is preparing to propose her dissertation study. Her doctoral studies have focused on mathematics for children who are deaf/hard of hearing. Taylor is particularly interested in story problem solving, and her dissertation will focus on story-problem solving for oral deaf/hard-of-hearing children ages K through grade 3. Taylor is also interested in teacher preparation and making research accessible to teachers and parents. In addition to her dissertation work, Taylor is also working as a graduate assistant to Dr. J.S. Thom at the University of Victoria in Canada. Funded by a grant from the Canadian government (SSHRC), this project looks at how deaf/hard-of-hearing children in mainstream settings learn geometry, particularly the embodied ways they learn geometry; embodied learning is a new branch of research examining how learning happens not only from the "neck up" - with what we see and/or hear and think - but also with what children know through other senses such as touch and smell and through culturally-constructed ways of learning and interacting with one another.