Authors:

Nasrin Aasofwala, Shanti Verma

Abstract:

Purpose: The purpose of this study to understand the deaf community’s education in this pandemic situation. : This pandemic evolves digitization process all over the world. The schools are also come with a remote and online learning-teaching process. This online learning is a turning point of a deaf students.This study includes how schools are handling the deaf students and teach them online in this pandemic. It will helps to facilitate the education in a better way to a deaf community.

Method: The Survey of special educators by taking one on one discussion and interviews. The Questionnaire was prepared and taken the data of deaf student’s education. Due to the pandemic situation google meet and telephonic conversion helps a lot. I visited to 2 deaf-mute schools of Gujarat region to understand the teaching methodology, teaching materials and the pedagogy of teaching. 

Result:Gujarati Sign Language is need to become a one standard form of language, as it differs with Indian Sign Language. The sequence of sentence is changed in Gujarati Sign Language and it differs of grammar. For e.g.you – only one sign but in Gujarati તમે, તારા, તારી, તમારાall has a different signs. As well as they different signs for series alphabets. Any language with grammar provide a complete meaning of that language.It will be helpful to all the students in writing as well as understanding the meaning of that sentence.

Conclusion:There were many challenges to teach deaf-mute students on online platform, as there is a huge loss in this community in entire pandemic. As they were lack of resources, lack of support and lack of understanding did not give an expected output.The purpose of this paper to understand deaf education system in Gujarat region in this pandemic. The Survey helps to provide a better solution of flowing the education in deaf communityand development of them. Technology helps to decrease the problems of deaf-mute community, if digitalization of sign language dictionary will take a place.Non-challengeable person speaks and write the sentence or word and that will be converted into sign and played by 3D avatar.When student will see the content many times with signs that will help into their education. That will be helpful to understand the message from non-challengeable person to deaf person.

Keywords:

Covid-19, Deaf-mute schools, Education, Technology, Pandemic, Online, Sign language, Speech, Avatar

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021