Picture-based dictionary for ASL students

Problem Description

Most of our kids (whose parents are not fluent in ASL) have language deprivation. Many words that hearing kids just know via overhearing parent discussions, our kids don’t. When they read a new word or learn a new sign, it doesn’t activate prior knowledge the way it does for hearing kids or deaf kids with deaf parents.

Proposed Solution

A simple picture dictionary. Kids type in a word and a picture pops up. Or someone can speak into the device, speech to text, and the image will pop up. (Since Google images can be risky..) added features: Kids can draw a picture and it will try to figure out what they are drawing, offering images it thinks it could be, until the kid recognizes the image as what they are trying to communicate, selecting the correct image and getting the word for it. Even better if it can be linked to a pre-existing online ASL-English dictionary so that the sign also appears.