Projects
MUST - Multimodal stance-taking in interaction KU Leuven
METLab 2.0: Building the next generation mobile eye-tracking lab KU Leuven
Using artificial intelligence to facilitate communication between deaf and hearing people Ghent University
According to the WHO, over 5% of the world population suffers from hearing loss. This is expected to double by 2050. Hearing loss is estimated to cost society over 750 billion US dollars globally, per year. The Flemish government subsidizes up to 36 hours of interpreter aid per deaf person per year, which also leads to high costs. These interpreters facilitate communication between people with hearing loss and those without. After all, the ...
The emergence of phonology within six generations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Quotation Education Center Ghent: French for ex-OKAN students: co-creation and intervision process Ghent University
Education Center Ghent supports, connects and inspires children and young people, parents (and others
educational leaders), education professionals and their partners, so that children and young people
get maximum development opportunities to fully participate in society. From that mission
Education Center Ghent works on various themes and target groups, including multilingualism ...
Cracking the code to the letterbox: phonological awareness and reading in deaf children Ghent University
Compared to their hearing peers, deaf children struggle more to develop age-appropriate reading abilities. This pioneering study will combine existing assessments and three newly developed experiments in order to uncover the potential networks and mechanisms that can lead to a more successful reading comprehension outcome in deaf children. The proposed project will explore possible bottom-up phonological gateways to facilitate the decoding of ...
Scientific research into qualitative bilingual education Ned-VGT: report, guidelines, and recommendations KU Leuven
This project includes the scientific research into the effectiveness of bilingual education in Dutch and Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and its practical implementation, with the aim of supporting a qualitative organizational form in Flanders. The consortium will investigate which organizational form(s) can be considered effective, which are workable in the Flemish context, how to ensure high-quality language development of both languages ...
Multimodal stance-taking in interaction KU Leuven
A fundamental property of language is its ability to simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the speaker’s stance towards these representations. Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research ...
Signing Avatar Framework KU Leuven
Signing language, unlike native subtitling for the hearing impaired and the deaf-community, consists of its own grammar and lexicon and is not directly linked to native speech. Any solutions based on word for word translation are therefore considered as inadequate for the deaf-community. AVATAR develops the first sustainable Pan-European Signing Translation Platform with a clear view to exploitation.