This week’s Spotlight on Research is with Dr Elizabeth Mathews Lecturer in Dublin City University (DCU) School of Inclusive & Special Education
Your research looks at deaf education in Ireland. What inspired your interest in that?
“It’s a professional interest, I have no one in my family who is deaf. I think it started when my teacher in school in Monaghan showed us the film The Miracle Worker about Helen Keller, and I became intrigued by sign language.
Then that evolved and developed (...)