College of Education and Human Development

Assistant Professor
School of Intervention Services
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
427 Education
419-372-7286
dmlisa@bgsu.edu

Education
Ph.D. Michigan State University
M.A. Kent State University
B.A. Cleveland State University

Research Interests
Literacy instruction for deaf students, reading comprehension, and vocabulary instruction

Courses Taught
Curriculum Design for Students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing; Speech Production, Instruction, and Speech reading for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Practicum with Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Recent Publications
Dimling, L.M., Murray, M., Arton-Titus, T., Straka, L. A. (in-press). Teacher training through a parent’s perspective. Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Dimling, L. M.,  Worch, R. A., Murray, M.M., Oldrieve, R.,  Peet, S., Viramontez Anguiano, R., Straka, L.A. & Wooldridge, D. G. (2011). Practices and partnerships in preschool literacy. Delta Kappa Gamma 77(2), 71-79.

Murray, M., Dimling, L. M., Straka, L., Arton-Titus, T. (in-press). Family empowerment: Sharing with preservice teachers. The Ohio Journal of Teacher Education.

Oldrieve, R., Dimling, L. M.,  Worch, R., Murray, M., Peet, S., Viramontez-Angiano, R., & Straka, L. (2010). An exploratory study of beliefs and practices in pre-kindergarten programs. Ohio ASCD Journal, Spring/Summer, 22-27.

Recent Presentations
Dimling, L. M. (2007, April). Literacy Practices of Exemplary Teachers of the Deaf. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Researchers Association, Chicago, IL.

Dimling, L. M. (2007, February). Exemplary teachers of the deaf: A study of current literacy practices. Poster presentation at the Association of College Educators  Deaf Hard of Hearing Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Dimling, L. M. & Wolbers, K. (2006, May). Educational interpreting and issues of   accessibility for a deaf student: The tensions between responsiveness and impartiality. Presentation at the Disability Studies in Education Annual Conference, East Lansing , MI.

Dimling, L. M. (2006, February). Teachers of deaf and hard of hearing children: A stud of literacy practices. Poster presentation at the Association of College Educators- Deaf Hard of Hearing Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Dimling, L. M. & Wolbers, K. (2006, February). Affordances and shortcomings of parallel interpreting: An educational interpreter's spontaneous decisions to modify classroom discourse. Presentation at the Association of College Educators- Deaf Hard of Hearing Annual Conference, Denver, CO.