New perspectives towards the design of a deaf-centred e-learning environment

This paper presents the preliminary work done within the FIRB_VISEL project. It opens with an overview of the literacy problems related to deafness and the way in which information technology can intervene to overcome them. A theoretical framework will be introduced to explain the dsign of the educational and interactional framework of a Deaf-centred E-Learning Enviroment (DELE), which will be introduced at the end this intervntion.