Deaf Studies

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. […]