Marblemedia and the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf have teamed up to create the first animated and interactive American Sign Language dictionary for kids.

The online dictionary will allow deaf children to look up ASL vocabulary, along with the English counterpart, completely on their own.

Financed by the Inukshuk Wireless Learning Plan Fund, which supports the development of online learning content, the site will target kids five to seven and their parents through live-action video and animation. The fund is on board to finance the first portion of the project. The site will also teach ASL to children who can hear.

Toronto-based marblemedia has worked in this field before, producing the educational web and TV project deafplanet.com in 2003, also with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf.

From Kidscreen Daily