{"id":12,"date":"2016-09-19T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:01:30","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children learn new words when they can connect the language they hear to\u00a0the objects and events they see and touch in the surrounding world. \u00a0For deaf children learning sign language, both language input and information about the world\u00a0are perceived through the visual modality. This means that deaf children must learn to skillfully alternate\u00a0their gaze between people and things. \u00a0Our research aims to understand how deaf children acquire the\u00a0ability to alternate visual attention in a way that maximizes language learning. \u00a0 We are also studying how the\u00a0amount and quality of parents&#8217;\u00a0language input impacts children&#8217;s sign language acquisition. \u00a0Read more about our ongoing projects <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/research\/projects\/\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children learn new words when they can connect the language they hear to\u00a0the objects and events they see and touch in the surrounding world. \u00a0For deaf children learning sign language, both language input and information about the world\u00a0are perceived through the visual modality. This means that deaf children must learn to skillfully alternate\u00a0their gaze between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12525,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lavalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}