Padilla awarded for research examining sexual assault against Deaf individuals in the Philippines
For recent College of Public Health graduate Samantha Padilla, CPH '23, what began as her curiosity about American Sign Language (ASL) led to an award-winning research paper about a troubling issue affecting the Deaf community. Padilla’s paper, “Creating Positive Change for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals in the Philippines,” focuses on the prevalence of sexual assault perpetrated on Deaf people in the Philippines.
The paper won Temple’s Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in General Education. It was written as part of an assignment—to create a Wikipedi...