{"id":58712,"date":"2017-06-28T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58712"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:13:34","slug":"naomi-caselli","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/naomi-caselli\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Caselli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dr. Naomi Caselli studies how American Sign Language is structured,\u00a0learned, and used.\u00a0She leads an NSF funded project developing\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asl-lex.org\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"https:\/\/asl-lex.org\/\">ASL-LEX<\/a><span>, a database documenting the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon. She has also developed the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aslcdi.org\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aslcdi.org\/\">ASL-CDI<\/a><span>, an ASL adaptation of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory, that assesses ASL vocabulary in children younger than five. She leads an NIH funded project that uses ASL-LEX and the ASL-CDI to examine how deaf children learn ASL vocabulary, and how early exposure to ASL affects language acquisition<\/span><span>. Caselli&#8217;s work also explores the use of AI in sign\u00a0language computing, and she is the co-director of the AI and Education initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71812,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58712\/revisions\/71812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}