Completed Projects

Asia-Pacific Sign Language and Deaf Studies Research and Training Programme

Date: 01/01/1996 - 01/01/2001

General summary

This project aims to establish a long-term, comprehensive, interdisciplinary research and training programme related to sign languages and deaf studies in the Asia-Pacific region for both deaf and hearing researchers.
Aims

  • To improve the educational, social, and economic situation of deaf people throughout the Asia-Pacific region
  • To better understand sign language from sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, and historical-comparative perspectives
Activities

This programme envisions a number of interrelated projects that fall into five major categories:

  1. Sign linguistics
  2. Sign language teaching
  3. Sign language interpretation
  4. Deaf education
  5. Deaf awareness
Significance

This programme marks the first steps in an attempt to create a truly international cooperative research effort to better understand sign language and the situations of deaf people throughout the Asia-Pacific region. As mentioned above, theoretical areas of importance include historical-comparative linguistics and sociolinguistics, among others, and from an applied point of view, it is hoped that this project will help to improve the educational, social, and economic situation of deaf people in Asia and the Pacific.

Project Team

Professor James Woodward
Professor Gladys Tang
CUHK department of English
CUHK department of journalism and communications




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