Nasrin Aasofwala, Shanti Verma
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.
Covid-19,
Deaf-mute schools, Education, Technology, Pandemic, Online, Sign language,
Speech, Avatar
VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021