fostering educational access and promoting Indian sign language as a linguistic system. Often people from the deaf community who communicate via ISL have to spell out individual letters by hand ...

A 12-member team put together by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is coming out with an Indian Sign Language (ISL) dictionary, the Indian Express reports. SEE ALSO: 9 Apps and ...

In India, 6.3 crore people have significant auditory loss. Very few opt to study STEM subjects due to the challenges they face, including the lack of sign language for specific terms. “In 2016 ...

Indian sign language is a human right of the hearing impaired. Hence, it is essential to train more people, especially the special educators on Indian sign language. In this connection ...

The study noted that sign language continues to be "shunned" in most Indian schools because it is still stigmatised as a visible marker of deafness. "But the alternative preferred by many schools ...