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Researchers
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E-Mail
asli.ozyurek@mpi.nl
asliozu@yahoo.com
Web Site
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~aozyurek
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Dr. Aslı Özyürek
Dr. Aslı Özyürek's general research interest is in the relationship between language and thought. She studied psychology at Bosphorus University, Istanbul. She received a double PhD in Developmental Psychology & Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1997. She was then invited to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (the Netherlands) where she conducted various studies on the relationship between language and co-speech gestures as a window into the relation between language and thought. She has been working on Turkish Sign Language since she came to Koç University in 2000. In her research Özyürek attempts to understand the grammar of TID and its relation to other sign languages of the world and to explore the relationship between TID and the hand movements hearing Turkish people use while speaking. She also studies the spontaneously evolving gesticulation systems (home sign systems) of deaf children born to hearing parents who do not know any sign language.
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E-Mail
d_ilkba@education.concordia.ca
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Deniz İlkbaşaran
Deniz İlkbaşaran graduated
from Koç University, department of psychology.
There as a student she got involved with Turkish Sign
Language and the deaf community of İstanbul. After
her graduation, she worked for two years as a research
assistant of Dr. Aslı Özyürek on the
TID project, analysing and documenting the grammatical
structure of TID, and building a useful website for
the community. Presently, she is a MA student in Educational
Technology of Concordia University in Montreal.
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E-Mail
engin_l_arik@yahoo.com
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Engin Arık
Engin Arık got his MA degree from Linguistics Department of Universiteit van Amsterdam. His masters thesis was on spatial representations in Turkish and TID. He was graduated from the psychology department of Koç University, İstanbul. There, he worked as a research assistant of Dr. Aslı Özyürek. Currently he is a PhD student in the Linguistics Department of Purdue University.
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Other researchers working on Turkish Sign Language
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E-Mail
u.zeshan@latrobe.edu.au
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Zeshan, Ulrike
The German researcher Dr.Ulrike Zeshan conducts her studies on 15 different sign languages from various parts of the world, but her main interest is on the Middle Eastern sign languages. Zeshan, who has also written a book on the Indo-Pakistanian Sign Language, works with the grammatical structure of TID, and the spread of its use within the educational system.
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E-Mail
m.essex@hotmail.com
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Essex, Mary
Mary Essex, from the United States, is an expert on teaching sign language to children. She has been living in İstanbul since the reopening of the Karamürsel Deaf School, which had collapsed with the earthquake in 1999. There, she is working as a member of the International Blue Crescend Relief and Development Foundation. Essex, also a member of the deaf community, is currently working on teaching Turkish Sign Language(TID) to children at both Karamürsel and Göztepe Deaf Schools, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education.
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Participants in the TID Word List
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Sinem
Dal graduated from the Vocational Highschool of
Sultanahmet, Istanbul. She took place in the Blue Crescent:
TID project directed by Mary Essex, as a teacher assistant
at the Karamürsel A. Gazanfer Bilge Primary School
for the Deaf. She worked as an instructor of the TID
courses developed by Ulrike Zeshan, at the Tophane Center
for Disability, İstanbul. She passed away in 2004.
We are very sorry.
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E-Mail
hasandikyuva@hotmail.com
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Hasan
Dikyuva graduated from Eskisehir Anatolian University,
Integrated Highschool for the Disabled, with a concentration
on Computer Studies. He had been working at the Tophane
Center for Disability, and also taking part in the TID
Project of Dr. Asli Ozyurek. Currently, he is working
on the sign language research project of Ulrike Zeshan
, in the Netherlands.
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Nermin
Merdanoğlu had been interpreting the news for
the deaf, for many years at the Turkish National TV
channel TRT. Currently, she is both producing and presenting
the 'Sound of Two Hands' TV series for the Deaf community,
every saturday morning at TRT2.
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E-Mail
sulekibar@hotmail.com
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Şule
Kibar graduated from Goztepe Junior High for the
Deaf and is now completed her education in the Open Highschool.
She worked in "Iki Elin Sesi" program of Turkish
National Television (TRT-2). She has also worked as an
assistant teacher in Karamürsel Primary School for the
Deaf and İstanbul Göztepe Primary School for the Deaf.
She was enrolled in TID Teacher Development Course of
Bosphorous University. Currently,
she teaches Turkish Sign Language to public officials,
at the Community Education Center in Yalova.
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