Dr. Howerton-Fox’s research addresses the critical importance of early language access for deaf children and aims to improve bimodal bilingual instruction for the deaf through curriculum development and teacher professional development are based in research findings in comparative linguistics, language acquisition, literacy development, and deaf epistemologies. Her doctoral research examined the nature of the linguistic knowledge that expert teachers in a Swedish bimodal bilingual school for the deaf drew upon in their language and literacy instruction. Dr. Howerton-Fox has given a TEDx talk on deafness and language acquisition and has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and presented it at national conferences. In 2020, her literature review, "Deaf children as English learners: The psycholinguistic turn in deaf education," was cited in the Biden administration's Plan for Full Participation and Equality for People with Disabilities, and she was recently awarded, with Dr. Michelle Veyvoda (Phd, CCC-SLP) a $1.25 million grant from the US Department of Education to create the Interdisciplinary Advanced Certificate in Deafness, aimed to improve training for special educators and SLPs working with deaf and hard of hearing children in early childhood.