Kazi emphasized that ASL Aspire aims to fill a critical gap in STEM education for the deaf community, where literacy rates have stagnated at a fourth-grade level.
The founders' insights reveal an alarming disparity: despite deaf individuals comprising around 10% of the population, a mere 0.1% are represented in STEM fields due to linguistic barriers.
Mona Jawad's research highlighted a lack of effective commercial solutions for teaching STEM subjects to deaf students, prompting the creation of ASL Aspire in 2021.
ASL Aspire collaborates with deaf experts to standardize STEM vocabulary in ASL and aims to create inclusive educational resources for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
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