Connie Mayer, Ed.D.

Connie Mayer, Ed.D.

Connie Mayer, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education , York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3

Dr. Connie Mayer is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada where she works in the graduate programs in Education, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and Critical Disability Studies, and is an academic coordinator of the teacher preparation program in the education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students. Prior to coming to York, Dr. Mayer worked for more than twenty years as a consultant, administrator and teacher of DHH students from preschool through postsecondary. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, a former Associate Editor for the Volta Review, and a member of the editorial board of the American Annals of the Deaf and the Reading Research Quarterly. Her current research focuses on written language and literacy development in DHH learners, early literacy and early intervention, cochlear implantation, bilingualism, and models of teacher education. She has presented widely on these topics both nationally and internationally as well as having written numerous journal articles and book chapters, and co-authored a book on early literacy development in deaf children that will be available early in 2015.