RESUMEN
The article briefs about the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S. With so much online and at home during the pandemic, real digital access for all children is a necessity. The legacy of U.S. media encouraging or requiring certain types of translation, while discouraging or ruling out others, matters for ideas about what does, or does not, constitute "access" to community and media for deaf children. Programming that is provided or translated into visual, fully accessible ASL and other signed languages is a key step. Rather than transcribing English into captions, it's worth looking past technologies of translation and to other countries' examples before and during COVID-19, as well as ongoing grassroots deaf organizing, to ensure that this crisis does not amplify the language deprivation crisis for deaf children in the U.S. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)