Kristin DiPerri
Part-Time Instructor
Kristin DiPerri, EdD, is an independent educational consultant and literacy development specialist for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students. She has presented numerous workshops and presentations throughout the US and abroad to teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. For over 30 years she has worked as a classroom teacher, a researcher, an instructor in the Deaf Education program at Boston University, and the English literacy coordinator at a residential school for the deaf.
For the past several years, Dr. DiPerri had been working with several schools and programs in the country to implement new literacy programming approaches to meet the diverse literacy needs of DHH students. Through discussion and demonstration lessons, teachers receive training that is hands-on, comprehensive, and applicable to their students. Materials and assessments provided to teachers support their personal needs for instruction. She is the author of several instructional publications: five workbooks for students and the Bedrock Literacy Curriculum, and she is also the co-author with Todd Czubek of the Bilingual Grammar Curriculum. She is the owner of Bedrock Literacy & Educational Services.
Education
EdD Developmental Studies: Language, Literacy, and Culture
MEd Education of the Deaf
BS Elementary Education
Courses
RE 501 Teaching of Reading
DE 552 A & B Topics Seminar- English Literacy Development in Deaf Children
DE 577 Instructional Strategies
LS 727 Literacy Seminar
Arrange and supervise field placements for the following courses:
DE 554 Deaf Studies Internship
DE 574 Pre-practicum
DE678 Practicum
DE 679 Clinical Practicum.
Selected Publications
Czubek, T. and Di Perri, 2016, K. Bilingual Grammar Curriculum. A curriculum for developing ASL and English grammar skills ensuring that skills are understood, internalized and independently applied in writing.
Di Perri, K. August 2013. Bedrock Literacy Curriculum. A curriculum for developing foundational English literacy skills for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. Bedrock Literacy & Educational Services.
Di Perri, K. Summer 2011. When is a Cow a Dog? The Endeavor, American Society for Deaf Children.
Selected Presentations
Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID), Presented two literacy workshops and the end Keynote “Shaping Tomorrow’s Deaf Education: What is Effective Change?”, July 27, 28 & 29.
Comprehensive Approach to Grammar Instruction: What all students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing need. Two-day training, co-presented with Todd Czubek at Working With the Experts, Orlando Florida, Dec 5 & 6, 2015.
Literacy Foundations: Providing a Developmentally Appropriate Approach for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, MDESE Professional Development Institute, The Learning Center for the Deaf, Massachusetts, October 2, 2015.