ABSTRACT
The use of information technology (IT) in deaf education is slowly beginning to emerge, showing its enormous potential for supporting the development of communication and language skills, as well as for teaching subjects such as geography, mathematics and biology. Whereas the former type of IT application aims at improving receptive (and occasionally, expressive) communication skills such as speech reading and understanding signed or written language, the latter type of application is particularly useful to support the transfer of information. In these cases sign language or spoken/written language is used as a vehicle to reach this goal.
