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 […]

Jennifer Sander

Jennifer Sander is a research scholar at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on the role of visual attention in social interactions between children and their caregivers, and how this shapes the child’s language development. She employs head-mounted eye-tracking in naturalistic interactions, as well as screen-based eye tracking, behavioural […]

Emily Saunders

Dr. Emily Saunders is a postdoctoral research associate in the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab at BU Wheelock College of Education & 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. […]