Robert J. Hoffmeister is associate professor emeritus and former director of the Center for the Study of Communication & Deafness at Boston University.
Hoffmeister grew up at the residential American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Hoffmeister attended the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Language.
He is an associate professor emeritus and the former director of the Center for the Study of Communication and Deafness at Boston University.
[7] Another notable written work that Hoffmeister is known for is the chapter that he contributed in the book called Manual Communication Implications for Education, where he explains the ups and downs of the use of ASL in the education of deaf children, as well as the structure of ASL: its phonological and morphological components, classifiers and sentence level structure.
The article summarized their study on Theory of mind (ToM) abilities in deaf children.
"[10] Moreover, both understanding of syntactic and vocabulary were predictors of verbal and low-verbal ToM tasks success.
Additionally, he discusses the problems that exist using manual codes of English for the education of deaf children.
Hoffmeister explains that the concept of border refers to a Venn diagram, where the deaf and HCDP are not exclusive to each other, but have both overlapping and separate components.