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SignForward. RNID.org.uk: Shop: Product category A to Z: Telephones. Save Deaf Studies. European Union of the Deaf (EUD) British Deaf Association. Stories in the Air. Centre for Deaf Studies Bristol University. CityLit Deaf Education. BBC Ouch! SignPost. Sign-tube. Sign Health. BSLBT. Signature. RNID. British Tinnitus Association. SignStation. BBC See Hear. Hearing Times. Deafresource. Deafstation. Guardian Deaf Issue. Hampshire Deaf Association - About Us. Hearing Concern Link homepage. Deafinitely Theatre. RAD. DSigns - British Sign Language, Czech Sign Language, Greek Sign. D-signs is a project to implement an online training system for sign language in the workplace, mapped to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), to be made available in British, Irish, Czech, Greek and Cypriot Sign Languages.

This implementation will ensure compatibility of content and approach and to pave the way for a Council of Europe -recognised qualification in sign language for the workplace – which is the key meeting point of Deaf and hearing people. As well as qualifying the hearing employers and workmates we will create a direct effect for Deaf employees through the better communication at work.

The central purpose of D-Signs is to harmonise curriculum content and assessment for sign language as it would be used in the workplace. While providing a language development for hearing people, D-Signs is actually creating a better workplace for Deaf people. The objectives are: Welcome to the sign language corpora wiki. Sign Language Corpora Wiki wiki blog calendar Tags home hot workshop Add Tags Here History Edited May 30, 2012 11:54 AM by Onno Crasborn … Edit this page Create a new page Delete this page Welcome to the sign language corpora wiki The sign language corpora wiki aims to be a feedback-based teaching and learning resource about sign language corpora . And finally, there are links to sign linguistic corpus meetings in the calendar, and references to further reading . The proceedings of the LREC 2012 workshop on Relations between corpus and lexicon are online. An EU initiative is designing a blueprint for sign language grammars: COST Action IS1006 SignGram The NSF in the USA has made available 250 white papers about the future of the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE); eleven of them explicitly concern linguistics and language resources, one specifically emphasising the importance of signed languages .

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