Paris Gappmayr is a doctoral student in Professor Amy Lieberman’s Language Acquisition & Visual Attention Lab. Paris is interested in American Sign Language acquisition, as well as reading acquisition in Deaf individuals. Currently, she is working on a project studying gaze patterns during sign perception. She received a BA in speech sciences from the University of British Columbia in 2020. Her broad goals are to investigate common features between spoken & signed modalities and to advocate for ASL access for Deaf children.