Thursday, June 1, 2017

Important wesites for Indian Deaf Community

The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
 (Viklangjan Sashaktikaran Vibhag)
http://disabilityaffairs.gov.in/
This is official  departmental website of  Govt. of India under ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment  working for persons with disabilities. It Says:
" It is not only running seven National Institutes (NIs) dealing with various types on disabilities and seven Composite Regional Centers (CRCs), which provide rehabilitation services to PwDs and run courses for rehabilitation professional but also funds a large number of NGOs for similar services and also a National Handicapped Finance & Development Corporation (NHFDC) which provides loans at concessional rates of interest to PwDs for self-employment"

Department has setup

Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC)









Talking Hands
http://www.talkinghands.co.in/
They have developed a dictionery for Indian Sign Language. A good place to know how to sign a particular word. They currently have sign language video of 1368 word under different category.