{"id":83922,"date":"2025-07-31T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=83922"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:42:29","slug":"emily-saunders","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/emily-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Emily Saunders is a postdoctoral research associate in the Language Acquisition &amp; Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab at BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>As a doctoral student in the San Diego State\/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Language &amp; Communicative Disorders, Dr. Saunders studied the cognitive processes of reading for deaf adults, investigating language co-activation, morphological awareness, and unique eye movement behaviors. Research from her dissertation, \u201cEyes on Morphology: Investigating the role of morphological processing for deaf readers,\u201d was published in the <em>Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-may-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, May 2026<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":18489,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88739,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83922\/revisions\/88739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}