KARACHI: The fight for the rights of physically-challenged people in the country took a huge leap on Wednesday with the opening  of ‘Pakistan Sign Language (PSL) Resources’, the chief ever sign language learning digital apparatuses that are available free of cost across the country.

It’s the most wide-ranging work on sign language in Pakistan so far that structures a 5,000-word visual lexicon in both English and Urdu on a searchable web portal, digital video disc and telephone submission request. The programme was prearranged by the FESF in association with Ilm Ideas, the sponsor of the groundbreaking project.

The occasion opened with the national anthem in sign language by apprentices of Deaf Reach School, a FESF project.

As stated by, there are about two million deaf people in Pakistan; of them 50 to 60pc were children of school going age. But, only 2% children have right of entry to schools.

In Pakistan, nevertheless, only few books were accessible on sign language. Each book restricted not more than 500 to 700 words.

Senior Education Minister of Sindh and Literacy Nisar Ahmed Khuhro valued the effort on sign language and said that the government would hold a strategy dialogue with the FESF to see how to slot in the PSL learning resources into the regional school prospectus.

The progamme determined with a short documentary titled Aur Sunao directed by Taqi Shaheen. The film emphasized lives of the deaf who were positively employed in numerous jobs as well as the efforts made for making the sign language resources.

 

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