The CREST network was founded by Dr. Lorna Quandt and Melissa Malzkuhn at Gallaudet University, housed within the Motion Light Lab and Action & Brain Lab. Both labs are part of the Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Center. Read the Network’s shared vision statement can to learn more about our mission.
Gallaudet University is the world's only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf and hard of hearing students. For more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has led advances in education of deaf and hard of hearing students and deaf rights worldwide. Today, students from across the United States and more than 25 countries-diverse in perspective, backgrounds, interests and communication styles-form an exciting learning community as they prepare for dynamic careers and a lifetime of growth.
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Motion Light Lab is an interdisciplinary lab that brings people from different departments, including Art, Deaf Studies, Deaf Space and Urban Planning, Communications, Psychology, and the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning. ML2 is one of four hubs within the the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2).
The Action & Brain Lab uses neural and behavioral science to study the embodied aspects of sign language. Research areas include embodied learning, spatial perception, and how action experience and action perception interact. We also leverage this work into building new systems for learning signed language.