Designing a visual symbol system for Turkish language as an alternative means of communication: the process of delineating content

Designing Learning Materials within the Framework of the ALIS-T Project: Story Telling Activities for Hearing Impaired Individuals

“…The vocabulary of existent graphical symbol systems and normal language development phases are examined first and occurs in tandem with a presentation of the views and recommendations of pre-school and lower primary school teachers who were involved in design process. Coordinated studies with teachers who work in schools/centers where individuals with hearing impairment, autism, and trainable mental handicaps are educated from teachers who lived in different cultures and have different subject specialism contributed to the generational processing of the content (Karal, Aydın & Günal, 2010). Actions, people, adjectives, social interaction, time/status, pronouns, attachments, school, home goods, fruits/vegetables, food/drinks, math, jobs, nature, clothes, animals, health, technology, traffic/vehicles, body, colors, and others under different headings composed the approximately 750 words determined for the dictionary.…”