Jennifer Schoerke
Jennifer Schoerke (Vermont, USA) grew up with untreated single sided deafness, and became a BAHA (bone anchored hearing aid) recipient in 2014. Since 2017, Jennifer has been involved in our lab as our text editor on many of our research papers. She also contributes a highly-valued insider perspective to our thoughts and writing on the developmental impact of hearing loss. Currently, Jennifer is working towards her master's degree in Psychology, with the aim of entering a PhD program on the effects of hearing loss on mental health.
Understanding emotions from other people’s faces and from social situations is essential for daily social interaction. But how is that for children with hearing loss? Can they learn to understand emotions just as easily as hearing children?Through a collaboration between Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Otorhinolaryngology (LUMC and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Taiwan), Yung-Ting’s unique eye-tracking studies show that daily "exposure" in the social environment in which emotions take place is essential for the development of this aspect of emotional intelligence. The results are now published in 
