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Elisabeth Taunton is a Researcher at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) within the Faculty of Brain Sciences at University College London (UCL), working under Professor Mairéad MacSweeney on a Wellcome Trust-funded longitudinal study examining how visual inputs—lipreading, fingerspelling, and British Sign Language (BSL)—influence reading development in deaf children.
She holds a 1st Class Honours BSc in Physiology from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Physiotherapy from King’s College London. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she established her own physiotherapy and Pilates business and qualified as a Lipreading Tutor with the City Lit.
Taunton's research integrates her lived experience as a profoundly Deaf individual who uses speech, lipreading, and BSL to investigate literacy acquisition in deaf populations. Her work emphasizes applying cognitive and linguistic research to improve educational outcomes across the deaf lifespan, with particular focus on visual communication modalities.
She actively collaborates with deaf community organizations including Leeds Deaf Club, RNID, GB Deaf Women’s Football, UK Deaf Sport, Mary Hare School, and Reading Deaf Centre to advance deaf wellbeing and education nationally and internationally.
