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@misc{enable2025gallaudet,
    author = {Weru, Lawrence},
    title = {Untitled},
    year = {2025},
    url = {https://enablemodel.com/docs/manifestations/gallaudet},
    note = {The ENABLE Model}
}

Gallaudet University

Ed-tech developers license Gallaudet's bilingual ASL-English story apps so children get accessible literacy material at release.

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Pre-launch Interventions → Create Accessible Content

What it is

Gallaudet's Motion Light Lab (ML2), part of the VL2 Center, develops bilingual ASL–English storybook apps grounded in visual language research. These stories are told in ASL with English text woven alongside -- not as translation, but as dual access. When developers license these apps and distribute them at release, they prevent a familiar harm: Deaf children being the last to get the book. It's an act of care by adults who refuse to make language a privilege.

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The ENABLE Model draws on principles from anthropology and journalism to create a public ethnography of accessibility, documenting how people intervene or compensate for accessibility breakdowns in the real world. Inclusion here does not imply endorsement. It chronicles observed use -- how a tool, organization, or strategy is actually used -- rather than how it is marketed. References, when provided, are for verification and transparency.