Marine, Underwater and Fish For INclusion

"<< Objectives >>Deaf people and Deaf youth have their mother tongue in sign language and many of them struggle to read a spoken languageMUFFIN aims to improve the inclusiveness of Deaf youth in marine education, approaching marine habitat and visiting museums and aquaria by creating a lexicon for marine ""terms"" avoiding “fingerspelling“ (dactylology) and giving a sign name to 40 marine species in 5 sign languages. << Implementation >>National and regional Deaf organisations, with the University of Edinburgh and Ecomarine Ltd. will collaborate with local museums and aquaria in order to:- Create a lexicon of new signs for 40 marine species in 5 sign languages.- Producing a video dictionary (200 videos) for the new signs.- Producing 100 Educational videos to describe the 20 most common marine species.- A best practice manual to reinforce the inclusion in many educational contexts.- Test the new material in pilot events.<< Results >>The signs and video documentaries produced will be at the same time scientifically correct and attractive for Deaf Youth, facilitating the access of Deaf people to marine habitat, providing an educational tool for museums and aquaria as well as schools and educational context.The effective inclusion of Deaf youth will be increased with the use of the best practice manual and all the new sign names created will be included in the most used national sign language dictionaries."