Tuesday 05 February Wednesday 06 February 10.00 – 11.30 International Sign Indian Sign Language 11.30 – 12.00 Tea/Coffee break 12.00 – 13.00 International Sign Indian Sign Language 12.00 – 14.00 13.00 – 14.00 Workshop registration, Lunch break refreshments and Meet & Greet 14.00 – 15.30 14.00 – 15.30 International Sign Indian Sign Language Workshop for presenters 15.30 – 16.00 Tea/Coffee break 16.00 – 17.00 International Sign Indian Sign Language 15.30 – 18.00 Conference registration desk open 18.00 – 21.00 Welcome reception Thursday 07 February Friday 08 February Saturday 09 February From 9.00 Conference registration desk open 10.15 – 11.00 10.00 – 10.50 10.00 – 10.50 Opening addresses Plenary presentation Plenary presentation 11.00 – 11.50 11.00 – 11.50 11.00 – 11.50 Opening plenary Session 1: Session 2: Fringe Session 1: Session 2: Fringe meeting Age-related Reviewing the sign meeting slot Algerian Jewish Sign How far can developments in slot sociolinguistic variation in language testing system of 11.00 – Language (AJSL): Will it online sign language learning 11.00 – 12.10 sign languages, with BSL and Auslan: A way 12.10 survive? and teaching resources particular reference to toward improvement Sara Lanesman support sign language Nepali Sign Language Ida Rogers education and interpreting in Upen Khanal isolated areas? Tessa Padden-Duncan 11.50 – 12.10 11.50 – 12.10 11.50 – 12.10 Tea/Coffee break Tea/Coffee break Tea/Coffee break 12.10 – 13.00 12.10 – 13.00 12.10 – 13.00 Session 1: Session 2: Scarcity of Session 1: Session 2: Session 1: Session 2: The grammatical Ethiopian Sign Language Title TBC Violence against deaf Japanese Sign Language The Polish Sign Language functions of the A- and its effects in teaching Richard Cokart women: We can’t ignore it and the other sign (PJM) Corpus Project handshape and the I- and learning physics: any longer languages from the newer Dr Paweł Rutkowski handshape in Korean The case of three Sabine Fries point of view of written Sign Language selected primary schools Japanese Kang Suk in Addis Ababa Soya Mori Andargachew Deneke 13.00 – 14.00 13.00 – 14.00 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break 14:00 – 14:50 14:00 – 14:50 14:00 – 14:50 Special Session A: Special Session B: Special Session: Session 2: The current Session 1: Session 2: Online elementary-level Processes of Deaf Code-switching in situation of sign bilingual Title TBC Reflections on sign language English literacy Empowerment and bilingual deaf signers adults in the Netherlands Yassine Nauta concept definitions: programme for young Deafhood in Mumbai and using Burundi Sign Gardy Van Gils Sociolinguistic, pedagogical deaf adults using Indian India Language and Indian and technical aspects Sign Language Sujit Sahasrabudhe Sign Language Moez Beddai Sunil Saharsrabudhe Ulrike Zeshan, Sibaji Panda and Charles Njejimana 14.50 – 15.40 14.50 – 15.40 14.50 – 15.40 Session 1: Session 2: Session 1A: Session 1B: Fringe Session 1: Special Session: Fringe meeting Findings on number The study of ‘deaf space’ The importance of a A typology of dominance meeting slot Symmetry: Poetry in The medical community and slot from the Sign Language in Adamorobe, a ‘shared dictionary of Chican Sign reversals in Sign Language 15.20 – Brazilian Sign Language the Deaf community in 14.35 – 16.10 Typology (SLT) project: signing community’: Language in the of the Netherlands (NGT) 17.00 Fernanda de Araujo Mumbai Comparing Japanese Rethinking established preservation and Onno Crasborn Machad Thora Hubner Sign Language, Chinese concepts in Deaf Studies development of an Sign Language and Annelies Kusters endangered village sign British Sign Language language in Mexico Keiko Sagara Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado 15.40 – 16.00 15.40 – 17.00 15.40 – 16.10 Tea/Coffee break Tea/Coffee break Tea/Coffee break 16.00 – 16.50 Session 1: How to find a Special Session: Fringe sign in sign language Establishing training for meeting slot ontology without using prospective Indian Deaf 15.30 - 17.00 written language? peer tutors of English Geffroy & Moummy Tamara Kovacova 17.00-17.50 17.00-17.50 16.10 – 17.00 Plenary presentation Plenary presentation Closing session 19.00 – 22.00 Conference dinner Waitlisted: Lexical variation in Ethiopian Sign language (EthSL) Kidane Admasu Deaf Education in Parts of Tamilnadu, India – What it is and How I see it Renu A sociolinguistic profile of the Nepali Deaf community and a comparison of the sign languages used in Kathmandu and Pokhara Valley Upen Khanal Ethical Issues in Zambia Sign Language Research Chibesa Rovah Simbule and Euphemia Sijabala Spatial constructions in French Sign Language Jose Dobrzalovski .