{"id":24476,"date":"2021-10-13T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=24476"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:15:13","slug":"naomi-caselli","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/naomi-caselli\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Caselli, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/naomi-caselli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naomi Caselli<\/a> is an Associate Professor in the Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development at Boston University, Director of the AI &amp; Education Initiative and <em>C<\/em>o-Director of the Deaf Center. She is hearing, and her first languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and English. She leads a research team that works to make research on language\u2014across education, computer science, linguistics, psychology, and medicine\u2014inclusive of sign languages, and to ensure all deaf children have access to language. Her research is centered on three questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does early language experience shape how deaf children learn language?<\/li>\n<li>How is the sign language lexicon structured, learned, and processed?<\/li>\n<li>How can we responsibly use AI to make the world more accessible to sign language users?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomicaselli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=yGdJT4oAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24476\/revisions\/40501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}