Naomi Caselli is an Assistant Professor of Deaf Education and the co-director of the AI and Education initiative at Boston University. She is hearing, and her first languages are ASL and English. She leads a research team that documents the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon, the effects of language deprivation on language acquisition, and developing AI-enabled sign language technology. She is a co-developer of ASL-LEX, an award-winning lexical database documenting the ASL lexicon, and the ASL-CDI 2.0, an early ASL vocabulary assessment. Her work centers around four themes:
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