Emily Saunders

Emily Saunders is a postdoctoral scholar in the Language Acquisition and Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab. She is interested in language and literacy development across the lifespan for deaf signers. Dr. Saunders’s previous work focused on the cognitive processes of reading for deaf adults, including language co-activation, morphological awareness, and unique eye movement behaviors. Her current 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.