Lofty Aspirations: ASL Aspire is Working to Bring STEM to ASL Users

8/9/2022

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Smile Politely -- The biggest obstacle to teaching math and science to deaf and hard-of-hearing students is the lack of signs for technical terms. ASL users and translators must either spell the terms out, significantly hindering classroom instruction, or approximate them with signs from everyday language, increasing the already-large divide between deaf scientists and the rest of their fields.

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This story was published August 9, 2022.