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Amy Lieberman serves as Associate Professor in Boston University's Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, holding a tenure-track position within the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences. She actively contributes to both research and teacher preparation through BU Wheelock's Deaf Studies program.
Her educational foundation includes:
- PhD in Special Education (UC Berkeley & San Francisco State University)
- MA in Education (Cognition and Development, UC Berkeley)
- BA in Human Biology (Stanford University)
Professor Lieberman's research examines ASL acquisition mechanisms in deaf children, focusing on visual modality language processing and attention dynamics during word learning. Her NIH-funded investigation reveals how early language exposure shapes lifelong cognitive processing in deaf individuals, directly informing multilingual educational frameworks that integrate ASL and English development.
Her active NIH grant supports ongoing studies of attention allocation patterns in deaf/hard-of-hearing children during language tasks. Through BU Wheelock's Deaf Studies program, she trains preservice teachers in evidence-based multilingual approaches that accommodate diverse language acquisition pathways.
Professor Lieberman maintains strong institutional alignment between her NIH-funded research and teacher preparation initiatives, creating a direct pipeline from cognitive science discoveries to classroom applications in deaf education.
