There are a number of communication options for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Important factors are the degree of hearing loss, amount of residual hearing, and age of onset.
The following links focus on sign language, used by most members of the Deaf community. When you visit this site, you can download from any of 5 different fingerspelled fonts. These fonts can be installed and used on your computer. This is an on-line database of French Sign Language. SignStream is a database tool for analysis of linguistic data captured on video, and is being used in this project.