Emily Saunders, PhD

A lifelong love of reading led me to pursue a BA in English at UT Austin, where I was introduced to the field of Linguistics for the first time. Studying language from a scientific perspective quickly captured my attention, and after a last-minute enrollment in an American Sign Language course, I was hooked. From there, I found a way to blend all of my academic loves by developing a resarch interest in the cognitive processing underlying reading and language development for deaf signers across the lifespan.