National Institute of Speech & Hearing
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The Honourable Minister for Higher Education and Social Justice, Kerala state, Dr R. Bindu released the uniform Indian Sign Language Alphabet in Malayalam developed by NISH in collaboration with the All Kerala Association of the Deaf on 29.09.2021. This is a milestone in the holistic development of the Deaf community who will be able to communicate using the ISL Malayalam alphabet too along with the ISL alphabet in English and Hindi. The alphabet was developed by a group of deaf teachers and ISL experts namely Sandeep Krishnan, Arun Gopal and Ragi Raveendran in collaboration with the All Kerala Association of the Deaf. NISH Executive Director Ms M. Anjana IAS, and NISH CATI Director Dr K.G. Satheesh Kumar spoke during the function. The expert team who developed the ISL alphabet, NISH staff members and well-wishers were present for the function.