Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf professor Christopher Kurz demonstrates a sign language storybook on the World Around You platform.
The creation of 1,200 accessible books in the sign languages of Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, the Fiji Islands and Samoa.
Project Name
World Around You: International Collaborative Multilingual Sign Language Books
Location Implemented
Fiji Islands, Indonesia, Papau New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Somalia
Technology Used
Software/Apps
Competition Entered
Begin With Books
Reading Skill Targeted
Foundational, Pre-Reading
Status
Winner
Collaborators/Partners
Fiji, Indonesia, The Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Somalia
The Challenge
In the targeted regions of Fiji, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Somalia, and other regions around the world, deaf children lack deaf signing models in school settings and often do not have books in their local signed languages.
The Big Idea
Storytelling enables a shared experience among deaf children about the deaf experience. RIT/NTID will create 200 signed books using its Sign On For Literacy prize-funded software, World Around You (WAY). The 200 books will be created in six sign languages (Filipino, Indonesian, Somali, PNG, Fiji and Samoan), for a total of 1,200 books.
Featured Innovation
World Around You
Open source software that enables communities to create literacy content in local and national sign languages to be shared via an open-content digital library of folktales.
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