Bosworth presents at gesture studies conference
Rain G. Bosworth, assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at NTID, presented a symposium titled “Effects of Sign Language and Gesture on Learning and Attention Across Development” on July 13 at the ninth conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies in Chicago. This work was recently accepted as a peer-reviewed publication in Frontiers in Psychology titled “Visual Attention for Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Body Actions in Non-signing and Native Signing Children” along with co-authors So-One Hwang and David Corina.
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