Deaf Studies
Amy M. Lieberman
Dr. Amy Lieberman is an associate professor in the Language & Literacy Education Department. She co-directs the Deaf Center and serves as the director of doctoral studies at BU Wheelock. Her research explores how deaf children acquire American Sign Language (ASL), with a focus in how children learn to perceive language and information through the […]
Anna Lim
Dr. Anna Lim is a lecturer in Deaf studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, where she teaches various topics in deaf studies and Deaf education including the dynamics of diversity, oppression, and social justice in deaf communities and sign language structure. Her research interests encompass multilingualism of deaf people of […]
Emily Saunders
Dr. Emily Saunders is a postdoctoral research associate in the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab at BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research centers on the dynamics of visual attention between deaf children and their signing caregivers, with a particular focus on early literacy activities such as shared book reading. […]