Karen Boyd, M.A.

Contact Information

Education

• M.A. in Bilingual Education, University of Colorado Boulder
• M.A. in Community Services Administration, with emphasis in non-profit organization, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Professional/Academic Experience

• Teaches credit and non-credit courses in ASL and Deaf studies
• Instructs graduate students on national standards in teaching ASL
• Tutored students in all levels of ASL courses
• Mentored intern and legal interpreters
• Taught conversational skills to 9^th-10^th grade Native Americans, at–risk high school students, and parents of deaf child.

Other Experience

• Graduate Independent Study Team Committee, Lesley University at Cambridge
• President, American Sign Language Teachers Association of Colorado
• ASL Law Task Force Committee: Colorado Commission of Higher Education, Colorado Department of Education, and Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
• State Conference Committee, Colorado Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
• Chancellor’s Committee on Women, University of Colorado Boulder
• Logistics Officer, USA Deaf Sports Federation

Research/Areas of Interest

• Linguistics
• Teaching ASL

Publications/Creative Works

Publications

• Boyd, K. (2006). Second-Language Learner Perceptions of Spatial Tracing Constructions in American Sign Language, University of Colorado Boulder.
• Boyd, K. and Pinson, M. (2012). Video Quality, National Information Science Technology.

Presentations

• Boyd, K. (2004). The Marriage of Verbs in American Sign Language
• Boyd, K. (2008). The Character of Syntax in American Sign Language

• Boyd, K., and Slopey, B.J. (2009). Is That My Voice?
• Boyd, K. (2009). Classifications of Classifiers
• Boyd, K., and Penilla, A. (2010). A First Aid Kit for Relationship Building Between Deaf Consumers and Interpreters
• Boyd, K. (2010). ...to fill or not to fill...
• Boyd, K. (2010). The Self-Repairs from Spoken English to American Sign Language
• Boyd, K. (2012). Facial Intonation in ASL
• Boyd, K., and Penilla, A. (2012). Gestures in ASL and English: Prosody and Placement through Comparison and Contrast
• Boyd, K. (2017). Holistic Approach to Teaching ASL
• Boyd, K. (2017). Raising the Bar: Setting a Standard for Academic ASL

Honors and Awards

• Named one of Special People in Colorado, 9News
• Women Who Make a Difference, University of Colorado Boulder