ASL Aspire wants to gamify STEM education for deaf kids | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- ASL Aspire was one of the startups that presented at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield 200
- The company works with deaf scientists and mathematicians who are standardizing STEM-based vocabulary in ASL to create curricula for teachers to integrate into their existing lesson plans
- Around 10% of Americans are deaf or hard of hearing
Poor literacy skills have plagued the deaf and hard of hearing community for decades. The median literacy rates of deaf high school graduates have languished at a fourthgrade level since the turn of [+3520 chars]