Intellectual Contributions
  • Dissertation:  Learning a World Language: An Interview Study of American Deaf Experiences
  • Scott, J. A., Henner, J., Butts, T., & Holcomb, L. (2025). Tales of a fourth-grade nothingburger: a critical inquiry into deficit-framed research. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 30(SI), SI26-SI42.
  • Rabalais, C. B., Birmingham, S., Butts, T., Hormann, J., Johnson, E., Kabani, S., Kasun, G. S., Jefferson, R. L. M., Ormond, J., Quadri, Y., Riggins, J., & Stanley, L. (2024). I am my language: A reflection on collaborative poetry in a doctoral level classroom. Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts, 10(1). https://ed-ubiquity.gsu.edu/wordpress/9253-2/ 
  • Butts, T. (2024, February 3). Deaf experiences learning a world language: A preliminary poster. Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. 
  • Cohen, S.; Butts, T.; Bess, R.; Scott, J. (2024, February 1-4). Transparency in transition: Leadership changes at schools for the deaf (II). Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Butts, T. (2023). Perspectives on deaf people and society. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad031
  • Butts, T., Cohen, S.; Bess, R.; Scott, J. (2023, February 1-5). Transparency in transition: Leadership changes at schools for the deaf. Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACEDHH), San Antonio, Texas
  • Beal, J., Scott, J., & Butts, T. (2022). Goodnight Gorilla: How do second language learners’ American Sign Language narrative renditions change after viewing an ASL model? Journal of Interpretation, 30(1). https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/joi/vol30/iss1/4 
  • Scott, J. A., Amadi, C., & Butts, T. (2022). d/Deaf and hard of hearing multilingual learners and literacy instruction. In J. E. Cannon, C. Guardino, & P. V. Paul (Eds.), Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners Foundations, Strategies, and Resources (First ed., pp. 142-174). Routledge
  • Amadi, C., Butts, T., Kang, K. Y., Cohen, S., & Scott, J. A. (2021, July 7). Study Abroad Experiences for Pre-Service Educators of DHH Students. International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Virtual Conference.
  • Amadi, C., Butts, T., Kang, K., Cohen, S., Scott, J. A. (2020, February 15).Study Abroad Experiences for Pre-Service Educators of DHH Students. Poster presented at the Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
  • Butts, T., Lee, A. (2019, June 3-7). The What and Why of Thinking Maps.
    Institute Designed for Educating All Students (IDEAS), St. Simons Island, Georgia

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Under peer review or in revision
  • Study: Leadership changes at a school for the deaf
  • Chapter: Summarizing research in multilingual deaf education​
​Additional thoughts, musings, and questions​
  • Study Abroad opportunities for deaf students and students in Deaf Education
  • Teaching methods of the deaf in France
    • Teacher prep programs, requirements, classroom implementation
  • Written English development of deaf secondary students
Positionality
​I am a hearing, Black, cisgender man educated and enculturated in the United States. My socioeconomic status has been American middle class. I am sighted and generally able-bodied. My first language is English, I'm agnostic, unmarried, and child free. 

All of the above, and more, influence my research to some degree. 

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