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Emily Pacheco
@empacheco.bsky.social
Coda 🤟🏽 PhD Candidate 📚
ASL (American Sign Language) Interpreter
RID Certified & NAATI Recognised Practicing
Master of Research in Linguistics from Macquarie University 🎓
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@empacheco.bsky.social is another frequent contributor, and most recently interviewed Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson about teaching for Hearing Heritage Signers of ASL
www.languageonthemove.com/the-case-for...
The case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimore County, USA) about her 2018 paper, The Case for H…
www.languageonthemove.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reposted by Emily Pacheco
I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳
For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast.
Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Thank for sharing, Tazin! 🤩
June 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Emily Pacheco
And more recently, she discussed with Su Kyong Isakson how hearing ASL heritage signers could be better included in language education
www.languageonthemove.com/the-case-for...
The case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimore County, USA) about her 2018 paper, The Case for H…
www.languageonthemove.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reposted by Emily Pacheco
Emily has also made some great podcast episodes interviewing researchers working in related areas. Eg in this episode last year, she interviewed @jeminanapier.bsky.social about her work on sign language brokering
www.languageonthemove.com/sign-languag...
Sign Language Brokering
 In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her 2021 book Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Heari…
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June 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Thanks for sharing, Brynn! 🤟🏽
My dear friend @empacheco.bsky.social writes about her groundbreaking research into Comdas (children of migrant Deaf adults) in Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social .
How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires?
@empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post
www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...
June 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thank you, Laura! 🤗
Loved reading this summary of @empacheco.bsky.social 's groundbreaking work and can't wait to read the thesis as a whole (it's linked in the post) 👏👏👐👐
How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires?
@empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post
www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...
June 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Check out this blog post I wrote about my Master of Research thesis! ☺️
June 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thanks, Tazin! 🤗
What an informative @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️
New on the Language on the Move @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: why its important to find better ways to work with atypical language users and to train interpreters to work with atypical language users

www.languageonthemove.com/the-case-for...
May 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Excited to share this podcast episode I recorded with Su Kyong Isakson where we discuss heritage signers and sign language interpreter education!

www.languageonthemove.com/the-case-for...
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I am thrilled to share my Master of Research thesis: figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/the...

This project meant the world to me and I am excited to continue my research at Macquarie during my PhD candidature. 🤗
Sign Language Brokering and Heritage Language Maintenance Among Hearing Children of Deaf Migrant Parents
Where children have proficiency in the dominant societal language, but parents do not, children may act as linguistic mediators for their parents. In migration contexts, this practice is known as chil...
figshare.mq.edu.au
February 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM