International Center for Sign Language Assessment

(ICSLA)

Objectives

• Taking advantage of the unique resources of an international team of experts, consisting of deaf and hearing professional in the fields of deaf education, applied linguistics, psychology, and computer sciences (combining the information from different disciplines into a pool of knowledge)
• To develop sign language assessment instruments for use in schools to measure deaf students’ developmental status
• Combining a strong theoretical framework/background and emphasis on empirical research with hands-on approach through long-term collaboration with schools
• Strengthening European-based research on sign language acquisition and assessment through international collaboration
• Seeking collaboration with companies/businesses in the field of technology and computer science that are interested in improving the ways deaf children learn in school

...more to come soon...

Questions?

Send us an e-mail info@icsla.org or a fax at +49-721-5096 63 147 or +1-402-255-7267

Tobias Haug, Wolfgang Mann, & Claudia Mueller

Last update: March 2008