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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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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