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Signs2Cross: Linguistic mobility for Deaf people in Europe
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
Signs2Cross focuses upon a unique linguistic fact: while deaf people rely on their national sign languages for intracommunal communication, they are often able to transcend national sign languages and practice an international form of sign language use in transnational encounters. The various national sign languages have been increasingly recognised in many European countries while "International ...
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Lipreading to support Foreign and Second Language Learning by Hearing Impaired and Normally Hearing Persons
Start date: Jan 1, 2012,
Over 10% of the general population in the EU has some degree of hearing loss. Hearing impaired persons depend on lip-reading (also called speech reading) to help them understand a speaker. The patterns of lips and tongue help disambiguate sounds and words; facial movements and expressions support the perception and interpretation of prosodic information. The more severe the hearing loss, the more ...
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BiBiKit: a Bilingual Bimodal Reading and Writing Tool for Sign Language Users
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
Fact: If you are born deaf, learning to read is a major challenge. The majority of adult deaf learners are functionally illiterate - independent of country, language, or educational background.Fact: If you cannot hear, ICT tools for dyslexic or other reading disabled learners (text-to-speech conversion) will not solve your reading problem.Fact: Most people who were born deaf or who became deaf ear ...
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