Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot on Wednesday launched the 2nd Edition of Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary in New Delhi. The dictionary is brought out by Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) under the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
The Dictionary includes six thousand words under the categories of academic, legal, medical, technical and everyday terms. The first edition of the dictionary with three thousand words was launched in March last year. The ISL dictionary is also available on ISLRTC’s YouTube channel.
Around 1,000 videos have been uploaded already and the rest are in the process of being uploaded. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Gehlot said that the dictionary is intended to serve as a resource for ISL teachers, ISL learners, teachers of the hearing impaired, interpreters, parents of hearing-impaired children and researchers.