• Title of article

    A dictionary of Astronomy for the French Sign Language (LSF)

  • Author/Authors

    Dominique Proust، نويسنده , , Daniel Abbou، نويسنده , , Nasro Chab، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    483
  • To page
    489
  • Abstract
    Since a few years, the french deaf communauty have access to astronomy at Paris- Meudon observatory through a specific teaching adapted from the French Sign Language (Langue des Signes Fran¸caise, LSF) including direct observations with the observatory telescopes. From this experience, an encyclopedic dictionary of astronomy The Hands in the Stars is now available, containing more than 200 astronomical concepts. Many of them did not existed in Sign Language and can be now fully expressed and explained.
  • Keywords
    Teaching , Deafness , Astronomy
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Record number

    667575