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Karen Kritzer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor/Deaf Education Department of Educational Foundations and Special Services 405 White Hall, P.O. Box 5190 Kent, OH 44242-0001 Phone: 330.672.0608 Phone: 866.277.1920 (VP) Fax: 330.672.2512 Email: kkritzer@kent.edu |
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Karen L. Kritzer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor within the Deaf Education Program at Kent State University. She has a B.A. as a Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped with a minor in Secondary Education from Hofstra University, a M.A. in Deaf Education specializing in Early Childhood education from Gallaudet University, and a Ph.D. in Special Education specializing in Deaf Education from the University of Pittsburgh.Dr. Kritzer has participated in a variety of non-degree granting educational programs. She has certification in Family Math instruction from Rutgers University, has completed the Leadership Training Program in Discrete Mathematics at Rutgers University, completed an aeronautic education program workshop for teachers offered through NASA at the Kennedy Space Center and has successfully completed the ASL/English Bilingual Professional Development program at the Center for ASL/English Bilingual Education and Research.
Prior to earning her doctorate, Dr. Kritzer taught deaf and hard-of-hearing students at the early childhood level at a variety of schools for the deaf in New York. Upon relocating to Massachusetts, she taught upper elementary level deaf and hard-of-hearing students for five years, while simultaneously working as an early intervention specialist doing home visits for families with infants and toddlers with newly identified hearing loss. She has experience running Family Math workshops for families with deaf children from the preschool to upper elementary level. At the university level she has taught a variety of courses including those based on language development and curriculum design for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Dr. Kritzer’s research agenda is focused on mathematics education for young deaf children and family/home-related factors that contribute to early learning opportunities for this population. Her dissertation work focused on family involvement in the early education of young deaf children (age 3-5 years) and factors that contribute to early mathematical success. She has presented at a variety of conferences and published two articles on this topic. She also has a general interest in mathematics education for deaf students and has a variety of publications and presentations in this area.