[1] She is Professor of Linguistics at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and director of the Multimodal Language Lab.

"[4] Mayberry co-edited the book Language Acquisition by Eye (with Charlene Chamberlain and Jill Morford).

[6] She attended graduate school at McGill University where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1979 in Communication Sciences & Disorders.

[6] She served as Director of McGill School of Communication Sciences and Disorders from 1997–2002 before moving to the UCSD in 2005.

She found that deaf individuals who did not acquire sign language at a young age had difficulties acquiring its grammatical and morphological features and showed differences in sign language processing as compared to native signers.