The Centre has launched an Indian Sign Language dictionary mobile application called Sign Learn. The app is based on the Indian sign language dictionary of the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) which contains 10,000 words.
The Centre had launched ISL versions of selected books of National Book Trust’s Veergatha series under Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. The app is available in Android as well as iOS versions, and all the words in the ISL dictionary can be searched through Hindi or English medium.
The sign videos of the app can also be shared on social media. A senior official said, “The app has been developed to make the ISL dictionary easily available and to make it more accessible for the public at large.”
With the joint effort of ISLRTC and NCERT, 500 academic words in Indian Sign Language were launched. These academic words are used at the secondary level which are often used in history, science, political science and mathematics.
ISLRTC had recently signed an MoU with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for converting NCERT textbooks from classes 1 to 12 into the Indian Sign Language (digital format) to make the textbooks accessible to children with hearing disabilities.
