MALINDA ECCARIUS, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
202H Barkley Center
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0732
(402) 472-8259
Biography
Malinda Eccarius currently teaches academic courses in Deaf Education and supervises field experience and student teaching, and serves as director and co-director for two Federal Department of Education grants preparing teachers of the deaf to work in rural areas. Dr. Eccarius has taught deaf students since 1971, serving as a self-contained classroom instructor, resource teacher, parent infant advisor, gifted deaf program curriculum coordinator, teacher of the deaf-multihandicapped, and an academic tutor. She has also spent 12 years as an academic diagnostician on the multidisciplinary evaluation team at the Boys Town National Research Hospital, where she has served as Educational Services Coordinator, with responsibilities including educational outreach, parent sign language classes, video tape development, and curriculum writing for the Omaha Metro Area Consortium, which provides summer learning experiences for area deaf and hard of hearing students. Dr. Eccarius has served as adjunct staff at Texas A&M University, the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and Creighton University. Her bachelors degree in Theatre Arts is from the University of Iowa. She received teacher certification from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, her masters degree in deaf education from the University of Nebraska and her PhD from UNL. Her current interests include instructional illustration in visual literacy, language intervention with students who are deaf or hard of hearing with a cognitive emphasis on instruction, itinerant teaching and appropriate and valid assessment for students with limited hearing.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Boling, E., Eccarius, M., Smith, K., & Frick, T. (2004). Instructional illustrations: Intended meanings and learner interpretations. Journal of Visual Literacy, 24, 185-204.
Allinder, R., & Eccarius, M. (1999). Exploring the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measurement in reading for children who use manually coded English. Exceptional Children, 65, 271-283.
Research Projects
| Mountain-Prarie Upgrade Partnership (M-PUP) for Preparation of Teachers of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Areas of Geographic Need |
| Department of Education; Office of Special Education Programs |
Role: Co-PI |
Mountain-Prarie Upgrade Partnership: Early Childhood (MPUP-EC) |
| Department of Education; Office of Special Education Programs |
| Role: Co-PI |
| Exploration of Teacher Use of Instructional Illustrations Containing Elements that Add Learning |
| Indiana University IST Department |
