ACE-DHH Awards

The Early Promising Scholar Award is to honor a young scholar in the field of deaf education who has shown an early record of a promising career in both teaching and research. Within 5 years of obtaining their doctoral degree, the individual must have: (1) attended 3 or more ACE-DHH conferences, confirming their ACE-DHH membership; (2) a minimum of 4 years teaching in a deaf education teacher preparation program, and; (3) published a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed publications. In addition, the early promising scholar must demonstrate exemplary teaching as evidenced through 2 annual teaching evaluations and/or 2 letters of support from their academic supervisor. The nominee currently must be a faculty member in a program for preparing educators of students who are deaf or hard of hearing.