What exists
A working, certified control path anyone can inspect today.Contact
Start with the question you need to answer.
Sign First is currently a controlled research and stakeholder-demonstration platform. Conversations should begin with the audience, academic risk, and evidence required—not a generic deployment promise.
12 / A useful conversation
Schools, families, researchers, and technical partners need different evidence and different next steps.
Prepare the conversation
Send a bounded stakeholder brief.
This path records adult stakeholder contact information in the ASD-owned Sign First project. Do not include a student name, record, diagnosis, or signed-language sample.
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Deaf community
This work needs Deaf review before it needs customers.
Sign First is built by a hearing team. Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard-of-hearing professionals — educators, researchers, and the Deaf-led teams already building AI for Deaf students — hold the judgment this work is gated on. If that is you, we are asking for your review, your criticism, or your leadership.
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Schools
Define the educational decision and governance boundary.
Identify the age range, academic context, current access path, institutional controls, and evidence that would be required before any pilot discussion.
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Researchers
Define the claim and independent evaluation set.
Recognition, selective intervention, answer assurance, usability, and learning outcomes are different claims and should not share weak proxy evidence.
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Technology providers
Define the adapter and the output contract.
A candidate integration needs programmatic access, permitted use, privacy controls, provenance, output semantics, and an independently testable failure surface.
From interest to an answerable question
The next conversation begins with a claim—not a pitch.
The audience, academic decision, data boundary, integration contract, and required evidence determine whether a next step is useful.What unlocks
Bounded personalization and quieter assurance, as evidence and permission arrive.Where this goes
Direct signed access to approved AI, with authority always recoverable.Continue exploring