Spread the sign 2 - Communication in National Sign Language

Funding 
Leonardo da Vinci, European Commission

 

Reference
LLP-Ldv/TOI/SE/08/1204

 

Main researcher
Thomas Lydell-Olsen
Orquídea Coelho (PT)

 

Research team FPCEUP
Eduardo Cabral
Isabel Amaral
Maria do Céu Gomes

 
 

Duration
30.09.2008 - 01.10.2010

 
Partner institutions
Tullangsskolan, Virginskaskolan, Orebro University (Sweden);
Federación de Personas Sordas de la Comunidad de Madrid (Spain);
Educational Centre for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (Kaunas, Lithuan); 
Stredni Skola, Zakladni Skola e Materska Skola (Czeck Republic); 
Doncaster College for the Deaf (United Kingdom); 
Associação de Surdos do Porto; 
Associação de Formadores e Monitores Surdos (Portugal); 
Université Paris VII (France)

 

Web
Spreadthesign.com

 

Abstract
Spread the sign is an international Leonardo da Vinci project within Transfer of innovation, which is supported by European Commission thru the Swedish International Programme Office of Education and Training. We are working with spreading sign language from different countries on the Internet. This pedagogic self-learning tool is free to use for all in the world. The fantasy sets the limits of the use of this dictionary. Primarily we are doing it to improve our vocational pupil’s language skills when going abroad for work practise. Between October 2008 and October 2010 we will upload words from most vocational fields into the dictionary and enlarge its size. New for these two years is that we will include sound as well as more 3D animations to the words. We will also extend the languages in the dictionary beyond EU. Spread the sign goes global.