Personal Honors/ Awards
- Telling Deaf Lives: Agents of Change, book dedicated to Anita Small published by Gallaudet University Press 2014
- The Kathy Dolby Award (Singular Canadian award given to a hearing individual In Recognition of Exceptional and Long-term Contributions to the Deaf Community Its Culture and Its Quality of Life) 2006
- Selected for A Woman’s Agenda: Celebrating Movers and Shakers 2004
- Certificate for Valued Contribution, Ontario Cultural Society of the Deaf 2000
- Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati 1983
- Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati 1982
- Graduate Assistantship, University of Cincinnati 1981
- Highest Aggregate, Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University 1981
- Graduate Fellowship, Dalhousie University 1980
- Ontario Scholarship, University of Toronto 1975