Jennie Pyers

About

Professor Jennie Pyers is a faculty member at Wellesley College in the United States, where she specializes in research areas related to American Sign Language and its correlation with language development in children. Her recent articles examine the relationship between parental ASL skills and child vocabulary, the distinctions in morphophonology within ASL, and the developmental progress of deaf children exposed to sign language. With a focus on both theoretical and empirical studies, Dr. Pyers contributes significantly to the understanding of language acquisition and cognitive processing in deaf populations.