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About SignOn The aim of SignOn! is to enable deaf sign language users to use written English for international communication via the Internet by producing an interactive sign bilingual English course. The target group of the ‘Sign On!’ project are deaf people who are fluent in their national sign language and may have some knowledge of International Sign; they use a sign language as their first or preferred language. They should be e-mail and Internet literate and should have a basic competence of English (the program is not aimed at absolute beginners). © 2007, SignOn! Consortium; some elements © Møller Resource Centre (NO)
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More about the project partners 1. Project coordinator: Universität Klagenfurt, Zentrum für Gebärdensprache und Hörbehindertenkommunikation – University of Klagenfurt, Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Communication(AT) The University of Klagenfurt was founded as a reform university in the 1970s. It has now about 530 employees and 6,000 students. The Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Communication (abbreviation: ZGH) has got a slightly changed name and state since the Austrian universities fell under a new law by January 1st, 2004; formerly it was called Forschungszentrum für Gebärdensprache und Hörgeschädigtenkommunikation, abbreviated FZGS. We authored materials for Austrian Sign Language (courseware and grammar) and were engaged in several national and EU projects on deaf issues as a partner or as a coordinator (cf. http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh/inhalt/599.htm). At the moment there are 5 hearing and 5 deaf co-workers. Zentrum für Gebärdensprache und Hörbehindertenkommunikation Contact person:
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Psicologia Evolutiva I de l’Educatió – University of Barcelona, Faculty of Developmental and Educational Psychology (ES) The University of Barcelona was founded in 1450. Today it has a student body of 74,000 and a teaching staff of 4,150 members. It is the largest of the six universities of Barcelona and of the ten in Catalonia. The Psychology Department of the University has just started to teach deaf children to read English, with the aid of sign language. Universidad de Barcelona Contact person:
3. Pragma – Equal Access (NL) Pragma is a small, one-woman research and consultancy company, specialised in access to information for people with disabilities. We co-ordinated the TIDE SignPS project as well as the IST Signing Books for the Deaf project (www.signingbooks.org) and have actively participated in a number of other national and international projects for and of deaf people. We collaborate closely with Dutch Deafship, the national organisation of deaf people in the Netherlands. Some of our previous Sign Language projects on the Internet: www.signingbooks.org, www.vsign.nl, www.maakeengebaar.nl . Pragma – Equal Access Contact person:
4. Kuurojen Liitto ry – The Finnish Association of the Deaf (FI) Kuurojen Liitto ry is a non-Governmental Organisation (NGO):
FAD is the oldest disability organisation in Finland, established on the year 1905. It has 40 member clubs, 4,081 members in all. Besides its head office in the capital Helsinki, it has six regional offices around Finland. FAD collaborates actively with the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), the Nordic council of the Deaf and the European Union of the Deaf (EUD). It has also Nearby Region Co-operation and Development Co-operation through its different development projects.
FAD has 120 employees. Kuurojen Liitto ry Contact person:
5. University of Central Lancashire (UK) The University of Central Lancashire has approximately 2,000 employees and 30,000 students. The Department of Education and Social Science offers a successful undergraduate and postgraduate Deaf Studies programme, which was set up 12 years ago. University of Central Lancashire Contact person: 6. Samskiptamiðstöð heyrnarlausra og heyrnarskertra – Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (IS) The Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing was established December 31, 1990 and has 15 employees. The aim of the Centre is to promote equal rights of deaf people by supporting services in sign language. Other identified tasks are researching the Icelandic sign language, teaching sign language, being the centre for interpreting and other services. In 1996-2000 the Centre coordinated the Lingua project Völundur. Interactive bilingual/bicultural instructional materials in Danish and Icelandic Sign Language were made. Along with that the Centre developed the SignSmith and SignPlayer software that is now used in the education of deaf people in a number of EU countries. In 2002-2004 the Centre participated in the Grundtvig project BITEMA (http://www.bitema.uni-mb.si/index.htm). The main objective was to develop improved methods and means of education for deaf adults who cannot access the labour market due to poor school knowledge and poor qualifications as a whole. Samskiptamiðstöð heyrnarlausra og heyrnarskertra Contact person:
7. Møller kompetansesenter – Møller Resource Centre Møller Resource Centre is a part of "Statped", which is the Norwegian Support System for Special Education. Møller Resource Centre is located in the town Trondheim in the middle of Norway. The target groups are hearing impaired children, young people and adults who have rights according to the education legislation. This includes all the hearing impaired, the hard of hearing and the deaf with different languages, communication needs and who have different requirements regarding technical equipment, hearing aids and Cochlea Implants. Møller Resource Centre was established in August 1992. At the same time, the Trondheim Municipal School for the Deaf and Vikhov School for the Hard-of-hearing were integrated into this new Centre. Møller Resource Centre has about about 110 employees in five different departments:
The Department of Research and Development has been assigned the national responsibility for developing teaching materials for the hearing impaired. In addition to that we produce video-books for the deaf as well as sign language teaching material. The department has a staff of 20 people who have various qualifications, like pedagogy, linguistics, interpreting, sign language and technical skills in video and multimedia. Our production consists of books, leaflets, videos, CD-ROM, DVD, computer programs and Internet-based material. The materials can be bought through our web-shop www.mamut.net/moller. Department of Reseach and Development Contact person:
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