An intelligent system to help deaf students learn Arabic Sign Language

Peer Review #2 of "Towards an Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) corpus for deaf drivers (v0.1)"

“…This system helped the deaf student in the educational environment. Therefore, they created the dictionary that needs it in life activities and academic environments (Mohammdi & Elbourhamy, 2021). Some of them performed some sentences in Arabic language without focusing on a specific field.…”

An Educational Arabic Sign Language Mobile Application for Children with Hearing Impairment

“…Hearing disability has forced deaf people to limit their interaction to a closed group of people who know sign language. This closed group usually includes family members and others who are deaf [4], [5].…”

“…Sign language is a non-verbal and non-vocal communication method that involves the movement of two hands, fingers, and facial expressions to communicate. Each gesture in sign language can represent a symbol or a word and expresses a particular message corresponding to natural language [5]. However, sign language has its own structure and does not follow the same grammar used by the spoken language.…”

“…The ArSL is not unified, although there is a movement to have a unified ArSL [7], [8]. The Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs (CAMSA) has compiled the ArSL vocabulary into a dictionary which is currently used on pan-Arab television channels such as Al-Jazeera [5].…”

“…First, deaf schools and deaf educational institutions offer limited chances to train and prepare sign language educators. Second, not all families in the Arab world can provide a special teacher to teach their deaf child sign language due to financial costs and time requirements [5]. Subsequently, when a deaf child has a deaf parent, it is much easier for them to learn sign language [21], otherwise, the family needs to provide a special teacher or to enrol the child into classes to learn the sign language; this may not be convenient in terms of location, time, and cost for the family.…”