Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-20T05:11:28.747Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2011

Dominique Proust ,
Daniel Abbou  and
Nasro Chab
Dominique Proust
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 92195 Meudon Principal Cedex, France email: [email protected]
Daniel Abbou
Affiliation:
Groupe France-Television, France 5, 7 Esplanade Henri-de-France, 75907 Paris, France email: [email protected]
Nasro Chab
Affiliation:
Musée des Arts et Métiers, 292 rue Saint Martin, 75003 Paris, France email: [email protected]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

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 Françcaise, 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

astronomyteachingdeafness
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S260: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture , January 2009 , pp. 483 - 489
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

References

Proust, D (sous la direction de), Abbou, D., Chab, N., Delaporte, Y., Marion, C., & Proust, B. 2009, Les Mains dans les Etoiles, dictionnaire d'astronomie pour la LSF, (Vannes: Editions Burillier)Google Scholar