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Education
PhD, Educational Neuroscience
2020-2024
Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia
Advisor: Dr. Lorna Quandt
MS, Secondary Education for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
2013-2015
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
BS, Psychology
2008-2012
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
Work Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow
December 2024 to present
Perception, Language, and Attention in Youth (PLAY) Lab
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
Postdoctoral Fellow
June to November 2024
Brain Development Laboratory
Vanderbilt University Peabody College
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2020 to May 2024
Action & Brain Lab
Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia
American Sign Language Teacher
August 2019 to July 2020
Evergreen Public Schools
Vancouver, Washington
Secondary Teacher for the Deaf
August 2015 to July 2019
Washington School for the Deaf
Vancouver, Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Willis, A. S., Leannah, C., Schwenk, M., Palagano, J., & Quandt, L. C. (2024). Differences in biological motion perception associated with hearing status and age of signed language exposure.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(10), 2378–2393. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001635
Alam, M. S., Lamberton, J., Wang, J., Leannah, C., Miller, S., Palagano, J., de Bastion, M., Smith, H.L., Malzkuhn, M., & Quandt, L. C. (2024). ASL champ!: a virtual reality game with deep-learning driven sign recognition. Computers & Education: X Reality, 4, 100059.
Leannah, C., Willis, A. S., & Quandt, L. C. (2022). Perceiving fingerspelling via point-light displays: The stimulus and the perceiver both matter. PloS one, 17(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272838
Herzig, M., & Leannah, C. (2022). Social-Emotional Learning: How Can We Best 5 Support Deaf Adolescents?. Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 22, 36-41.
Quandt, L.C., Lamberton, J., Leannah, C., Willis, A., & Malzkuhn, M. (2022). Signing avatars in a new dimension: Challenges and opportunities in virtual reality. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 85-89. https://aclanthology.org/2022.sltat-1.13/
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