Thursday, April 14, 2011

New Gally Faculty Member

Cognitive Neuroscientist Laura-Ann Petitto is joining the Gallaudet University Science of Learning Center. She has been named science director and co-principal investigator of the university’s Visual Language and Visual Learning Center (VL2), which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Petitto's work includes discoveries about learning American Sign Language by children exposed to English and ASL early in life.