Under the digital content for learning of sign language, learners will be able to access content through enhanced videos aided with graphical illustrations and all content can be stored in one place and accessed online. Learners will also be able to interact with each other and team up to improve their communication skills.
They say with social media tax all their efforts to have their initiatives promoted will be undermined and are urging government to give them special consideration.
Hellen Ikitot, a teacher at Mbale Secondary School for the Deaf explains that Increased awareness and use of the Uganda sign language would ease information flow between the deaf people and the wider public.
Dr. Edgar Napoleon Asiimwe, the programme manager, Research at the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), the funding organisation for the project, said, “Digitalizing will help everyone to know how to communicate.