Dr Diana Burman[back]

Teacher of the Deaf for 35 years

Qualifications

• PhD
• British Sign Language Stage 2

Research Topics
Improving Deaf Children’s Literacy and Numeracy

Current Research Project(s)

National Deaf Children's Society Family-School Partnership: Promoting Deaf Children's Education

• Burman, D., Evans, D. Nunes, T. & Bell, D. (2008) "Assessing Deaf Children's Writing in Primary School: Grammar and Story Development" Deafness and Education International July 2008, John Wiley & Sons.
  
• Burman, D.,Nunes, T. & Evans, D. (2007) “Writing profiles for deaf children taught through British Sign Language” Deafness and Education International March 07. John Wiley & Sons.
• Burman, D. & Pretzlik, U. (2004) ‘Paths to literacy for Deaf British Sign Language Users’ In Handbook of Children’s Literacy (Ed. Nunes, T. & Bryant, P.)pp.741-766. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Nunes, T., Pretzlik, U. & Burman, D. (2004) ‘Helping Deaf Children’ Literacy Today pp.20-21
• Burman, D., Nunes, T. & Pretzlik, U. (2003) ‘Are they using the morphological route?’ British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) Magazine pp.40

See: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/resgroup/cl/