Emily Saunders (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received a BA in English and a BA in Linguistics with a minor in American Sign Language from the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked as a research assistant in the Signed Language Lab. Her reseach centers on the cognitive processes of reading for deaf adults with a focus on morphological awareness and processing.”