Gallaudet University recently received a grant worth $246,234 from the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) to expand access to financial literacy for deaf high school students through an ASL-first approach.
Led by Yauheni Koraneu in the Department of Business, the project entitled, “Fostering Financial Literacy Equity: Bridging Linguistic Gaps in Deaf Education,” will create a video-based ASL financial literacy glossary and develop classroom-ready learning materials that teachers can adapt to their local standards. By partnering with deaf educators and drawing on insights from deaf professionals, the initiative aims to make topics such as budgeting, banking, saving, and investing more understandable—and empowering—for students and families.
“Financial literacy is life literacy. This grant helps us build resources in ASL that are accurate, culturally grounded, and practical so Deaf students can learn money concepts in the language where they think, ask questions, and truly own the content,” said Koraneu.
Koraneu was assisted on the grant by Richard Bailey, Assistant Director of Development from Gallaudet’s Office of Institutional Advancement.
