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Learning to Look and Looking to Learn

Eye-gaze is fundamental to support deaf/hard-of-hearing children’s optimal development. Just seven hours after birth, infants take a remarkable interest in their mothers’ faces and can imitate their caregivers’ facial expressions. This early period and the development of synchronous eye-gaze with a caregiver has been shown to be important for attachment, as well as providing infants with the ability to regulate stimulation and join in turn-taking. By four to five months of age, the infant develops an interest in objects and this early ability to coordinate eye-gaze with adults leads to joint communication between a caregiver, the infant, and an object. The ability to obtain and regulate eye contact, or eye-gaze, is crucial for numerous developmental milestones in communication and language. This presentation will focus on looking to learn and learning to look, which we are framing, as the critical skill of eye-gaze. It is important to provide support and strategies to families, caregivers, and support specialists working in developed and developing countries on how to develop visual attention with infants. We will discuss the importance of eye-gaze and how caregivers can support developmental scaffolding of joint attention, language development, and the transmission of cultural knowledge.

Heather Zimmerman (POC,Primary Presenter), Gallaudet University, heather.zimmerman@gallaudet.edu;
Heather Zimmerman M.A., has bachelors in ASL/English interpreting and masters in International Development with a focus on People with Disabilities in Small Island Developing States. As a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of the Education of Deaf Learners program, Zimmerman's research focuses on resilient deaf children and youth. She is particularly interested in individual-ecological resiliency in developing countries. Zimmerman has presented and published on topics related to resilience and transformative research & evaluation. In 2011, Zimmerman founded the Månha Project—an intergenerational, intercultural community based initiatives that aim at enhancing the wellbeing of Guam’s sign language community.

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Julie Tibbitt (Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia Campus, Julie.Tibbitt@gallaudet.edu;
During the fall semester of 2014, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC offered a seminar titled “Age of Acquisition for Language”. Professor Dr. M. Diane Clark, Department of Education, and her doctoral students, Amarilys Galloza, Cara L. Keith, Julie S. Tibbitt, Ju-Lee A. Wolsey, and Heather G. Zimmerman decided to develop a paper based on their course “ah-ha” moments. To represent themselves they coined the name Team Attention. To contact the team email mary.clark@gallaudet.edu .

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Ju-Lee Wolsey (Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Lamar University, MsgforJL@gmail.com;
During the fall semester of 2014, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC offered a seminar titled “Age of Acquisition for Language”. Professor Dr. M. Diane Clark, Department of Education, and her doctoral students, Amarilys Galloza, Cara L. Keith, Julie S. Tibbitt, Ju-Lee A. Wolsey, and Heather G. Zimmerman decided to develop a paper based on their course “ah-ha” moments. To represent themselves they coined the name Team Attention. To contact the team email mary.clark@gallaudet.edu .

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Cara Keith (Co-Presenter,Co-Author), Gallaudet University, cara.keith@gallaudet.edu ;
During the fall semester of 2014, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC offered a seminar titled “Age of Acquisition for Language”. Professor Dr. M. Diane Clark, Department of Education, and her doctoral students, Amarilys Galloza, Cara L. Keith, Julie S. Tibbitt, Ju-Lee A. Wolsey, and Heather G. Zimmerman decided to develop a paper based on their course “ah-ha” moments. To represent themselves they coined the name Team Attention. To contact the team email mary.clark@gallaudet.edu .

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Mary Diane Clark (Co-Presenter,Co-Author), Lamar University, marydianeclark1@gmail.com;
During the fall semester of 2014, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC offered a seminar titled “Age of Acquisition for Language”. Professor Dr. M. Diane Clark, Department of Education, and her doctoral students, Amarilys Galloza, Cara L. Keith, Julie S. Tibbitt, Ju-Lee A. Wolsey, and Heather G. Zimmerman decided to develop a paper based on their course “ah-ha” moments. To represent themselves they coined the name Team Attention. To contact the team email mary.clark@gallaudet.edu .

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