Language Acquisition
Carey M. Ballard
Carey M. Ballard is a part-time faculty member at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where he teaches in the Deaf Education teacher preparation program. His professional interests center on American Sign Language development, bilingual education, and improving educational outcomes for K-12 Deaf students. Ballard’s experience includes academic research and teaching. He […]
Mary Bready
Mary Bready is a project coordinator on the Evidence-Based AI in Learning (EVAL) Industry Collaborative. In this role, she is supporting the launch of the EVAL Competition by coordinating logistics, managing partner communications, and contributing to the design of evaluation and submission processes. Before coming to BU Wheelock, Ms. Bready earned a master’s in child […]
Francois Fils-Aime
Francois Fils-Aime is a doctoral student in the Education Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Francois is an alumnus of the Lead Boston Program and the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program at Tufts University, and the co-founder of the Brunch and Ball Mentoring Program. He is […]
Paris Gappmayr
Paris Gappmayr is a PhD candidate in the Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences program studying sign language perception and acquisition. She is affiliated with the Wheelock Deaf Center through her work as a research assistant in the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab and is mentored by Dr. Amy Lieberman. Paris’ dissertation investigates the […]
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and co-director of the EdM in TESOL Applied Linguistics and TESOL graduate certificate programs. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and […]
Marshall Hurst
Marshall Hurst is the outreach and ASL communications specialist for the BU Deaf Center at Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. In this role, Mr. Hurst connects the Center’s research to a wider public through social media, web content, and events. He also contributes to research with Amy Lieberman and Naomi Caselli on language acquisition […]
Kaj Kraus
Dr. Kaj Kraus is a postdoctoral associate in the Deaf Center at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He studies how language and cognitive development are shaped by perceptual experience, language input, and modality. His current work spans three projects that investigate: 1) how early language skills relate to later language […]
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 […]
Lisa Lineweaver
Lisa Lineweaver is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include dual-language education; biliteracy development; Universal Design for Learning; and organizational capacity and transformation. For the past decade, Lisa has served as school leader of a dual-language elementary […]
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 […]