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This session focuses on diversity and inclusion through the lens of deaf culture and sign language acquisition. As knowing multiple languages becomes an increasingly coveted skill, educational institutions ought to consider how deaf education not only promotes learning of course content but also how a bilingual deaf education might promote teaching multiple signed languages and increased deaf world awareness.

This session uses the current case of the Uruguayan education system’s exploration of introducing American Sign Language as an alternative to English for all deaf students to help us begin to notice the potential knowledge and practice gaps in our US institutions and start addressing them.