Her research focuses on the acquisition and processing of American Sign Language (ASL) in deaf individuals, and the development of visual attention in deaf children. Prior to joining the BU faculty, she was at the University of California, San Diego, where worked as a Research Scientist in the Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development. She previously worked as an Early Childhood teacher at the California School for the Deaf, Fremont, and at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School at Gallaudet University’s Clerc Center.