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Deaf education in Austria Georg Marsh + Karin Moser Brno, June 16th 2016 Deaf education in Austria ● Deaf Schools / Bilingual Schools ● Sign language skills? ● Recognition „Austrian Sign Language 2005“ ● Evaluation: ● http://www.univie.ac.at/designbilingual/ ● http://www.univie.ac.at/sprachemachtwissen/ Deaf education in Austria ● University until 2010: ● Students had to organise interpreters themselves ● Budget: 2-3 courses per semester (long period of study) ● VOEGS – Austrian Deaf Student Association ● Project Idea „GESTU“ 2006; „Study Now“ ● Unibrennt 2009 („University on fire“) ● GESTU started in 2009/2010 Sign language interpreters in Austria ● OEGSDV 2016 (Austrian Sign Language Interpreter Association) ● 105 members (5 Deaf Interpreters) ● Education ● University Graz (https://translationswissenschaft.uni-graz.at) ● GESDO Linz (http://www.gesdo.at/) ● AFL (http://www.oegsdv.at/) ● Future plan: part-time studies ● University course LOGO (http://www.logo-salzburg.at/) ● Deaf Interpreter Sign language interpreters in Austria GESTU ● Interpreter pool 2010: Interpreter pool 2016: - 16 ÖGS interpreters - 29 ÖGS interpreters - 5 captioners ● Competence for tertiary level? ● Technical terms in sign language → sign language dictionary? GESTU Sign Language Dictionary ● Students‘ initiative ● Students + interpreters develop new signs ● Video recordings for archiving ● Online platform: http://fachgebaerden.tuwien.ac.at GESTU Sign Language Dictionary Working process ● Students collect technical terms ● Look them up (ÖGS-dictionary, other SL-dictionaries) ● They present them in work groups ● Discussion about how to best translate them into ÖGS ● When everybody agrees sign is recorded + uploaded GESTU Sign Language Dictionary Work group ● Deaf student(s) ● Deaf linguist ● Native signer ● Interpreter(s), technician, experts in the field GESTU Sign Language Dictionary Linguistic restrictions ● Agreed upon: ● Handshape ● Place of articulation ● Orientation ● Symmetry restriction ● Related signs ● Iconicity ● „Decency“ ● No initialising → embedding in a sentence as a test GESTU Sign Language Dictionary Linguistic restrictions ● Still in discussion: ● Length of sign ● Mouthing ● Finger spelling ● Synonyms Thank you!.

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