UW News
Rechele Brooks
October 15, 2019
Deaf infants more attuned to parent’s visual cues, study shows
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A University of Washington-led study finds that Deaf infants exposed to American Sign Language are especially tuned to a parent’s eye gaze, itself a social connection between parent and child that is linked to early learning.
July 27, 2015
Babies’ brains show that social skills linked to second language learning
![an example of gaze shifting](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/07/04165820/gaze-shifting-TILE-150x150.jpg)
New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants’ ability to learn new language sounds.