The US Latinx Deaf Communities: Situating and Envisioning the Transformative Potential of Translanguaging

Within the US bilingual Deaf education context, translanguaging has been discussed as a bilingual strategy for using American Sign Language (ASL) and English in the classroom (Gárate, 2012). However, since its introduction to the field in the early 2000s, there has been little development in thinking about how translanguaging works in classrooms for Deaf students in the United States. That is to say, the way translanguaging is being conceptualized and implemented simply expects students to alternate the use of American Sign Language and written English depending on the task. Applied in that way, translanguaging is far from recognizing and eliciting