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Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

College of Fine Arts and Communication

M. Diane Clark

Diane Clark

Department Chair and Professor
Office: Communication Building, Room 1078-A
Phone: (409) 880-1848
VideoPhone: (409) 299-4689
Email: mclark22@lamar.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1985
  • M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Marshall University, 1977
  • B.A. in Psychology, Shippensburg State College, Shippensburg, 1975

Dr. M. Diane Clark is a full professor and chair of the Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Â鶹AV. Prior to coming to Â鶹AV, she was a full professor at Gallaudet University and Program Director for their Ph.D. program in the Critical Studies in the Education of Deaf Learners. She has a background in the cognitive development of deaf individuals.

She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1985 under her advisor, Marc Marschark. She was a founding member of the NSF-funded Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning.

Her current publications have included the development of the Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist, the Beliefs and Attitudes about Deaf Education Questionnaire as well as projects that investigate successful deaf readers. She is also working with DSDE faculty on developing a parallel checklist for Spoken Language Development so that young deaf infants and children's language development between zero and five can be monitored in either ASL or English. Dr. Clark's research lab at Â鶹AV, Cognition in Context (C'nC), includes Â鶹AV doctoral students as well as undergraduate students.