eInclusion of sign language users

An essential improvement of the access of deaf people to education can only be reached by comprehensive interdisciplinary applied research and the use of modem ICT. In order to guarantee an optimal development in this respect, two main conditions have to be fulfilled: First, the situation and needs of the sign language users have to be clearly acknowledged (especially in comparison to other hearing impaired people). Second, the intellectual, scientific, organisational, and political barriers for the necessary developments have to be brought to the attention of all decision-makers so that they can be removed. The paper recommends major changes and measurements in order to realise the very positive programmatic EU-declarations on inclusion optimally.