Problems Associated with Interpreters Not Being Able to Fluently and Accurately Interpret STEM Content
Judy Vesel and M. Diane Clark, Ph.D.
AAAS-IUSE Blog. August 2025.
Summary
In the August 2025 AAAS-IUSE blog post, authors Judy Vesel and M. Diane Clark outline their extensive research on STEM content access for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). Through a series of IUSE projects, they focused on undergraduate students studying to be interpreters to address problems such as interpreters not knowing the signs and meaning of scientific terms used in interpretation of STEM content. This blog covers the challenges of their projects, the lessons they learned, the products they produced, and their tools for implementation.

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