This week, I had the chance to present my first poster at #SignCAFE3 in Warsaw 🇵🇱 ! The poster was about late acquisition of LSF and how children express motion events. These results are from my Master’s research, which became the starting point for the reflections I am now developing in my PhD.

At #ICED2025 in Roma, we were honored to share our joint work on the acquisition of Constructed Action in Deaf children and its role in bilingual education. It was also my first time presenting in International Sign! A powerful moment bridging research & education across borders. 🙌

De Meulder's keynote address yesterday at #ICED2025 deeply reinvigorated me. It felt good to see such a powerful talk, one that accurately deciphers our needs as Deaf people and the vital importance of Deaf academic spaces! Thank you again!

Maartje De Meulder@mdemeulder.bsky.social · last yr.

My keynote presentation at #ICED2025 yesterday was about the critical importance of deaf academic spaces, presenting #DrDeaf as an example, and the values they entail for broader deaf educational environments. Preprint of the paper: lnkd.in/ecx4bM-D Full keynote presentation: lnkd.in/eE7qrkhY

Symposium on the history and genetics of sign language communities. November 13-14, 2025. Paris, France. slg.ucsd.edu

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Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities

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We still have places available for the #DrDeaf Spring Writing Retreat in Ål, Norway, 25-30 May. Join us for a week of writing, workshops, and wellness activities. New in 2025: visual dissemination of research, use of generative AI for writing, and co-authoring. Register today! www.al.fhs.no/dr-deaf/

New adventure that started for me a few months ago, I'm a Ph.D student! I want to focus on the effects and issues during the expression of movement in the context of late acquisition by the deaf child. The late acquisition of a LS represents the situation of many deaf children.

Since I couldn't go to #TISLR15, I had the chance to go to the LOT Winterschool at Radboud University in Nijmegen. I took courses in neurolinguistics and neurocognition. I also had the chance to discover the @mpi-nl.bsky.social where my thesis cosupervisor works and to meet a deaf PhD student!