WFDYS LIVE WEBINAR: Our Prospect: Signing Avatar

Webinar Title: Our Prospect: Signing Avatar

Date and time: 15 April 2022, 13:00 CEST, 20:00 Korean time

Recording: Will be available after the live session

Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-mrpz8tEtFefqGx65hmSFNWUycd18-c

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Background 

This webinar is held because of the need of youth to know more about signing avatar, especially its impacts and challenges nowadays. The presenter is a deaf young woman from Republic of Korea, Ms. Park Ahreum. She is working in a company which focuses on the avatar as a signer. She will explain how it works, its impacts and challenges. Based on the WFD and WASLI statement on the Signing Avatar, it states that there are 4 keys we need to know that signing avatar is limited and not as productive and creative as human.