Chennai: To bridge the gap between hearing-impaired and normal people, an app has been launched in city recently.
It was done under the instance of Rajasekara Pandy, senior manager of L&T’s CSR wing, for the empowerment of the hearing impaired in collaboration with the Deaf Enabled Foundation (DEF), a pan-India voluntary organisation working for the uplift of the hearing-impaired.
Most people assume that learning sign language is difficult and so they tend to ignore people with hearing disabilities.
The app, launched by the CSR wing of L&T, makes learning sign language easy not only for the hearing-impaired but also the families of the hearing-impaired, educators and interpreters. This mobile app combines visuals, actions and words and is available for download on both iOS and Android platforms.
Speaking to News Today, Rajasekara Pandy, a resident of Vadapalani, says that the app has had more than 10,000 downloads so far and he hopes that more people will make an attempt to learn the sign language.
He also adds that L&T has been supporting the DEF’s efforts to improve the lives of the hearing-impaired for the past seven years.
The app is right now packed with more than 5,000 easy-to-understand signs denoting alphabets, numbers, days of the week, colours, etc. And it has in-built videos, gestures and illustrations for easy learning by adults and children.
Pandy states that the main aim of creating such an easy-to-learn app was to teach the younger generation to learn to communicate with the hearing-impaired and to treat people with disabilities with more compassion.