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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Gerard,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I must admist I didn't read through the
entire PhD (certainly not because most of it is still in Arabic and it
would take me a lot of time trying to read through it), but I skimmed through
the English translation. However I know from my experience of 6 years in Jordan
working with the Deaf that these al-Amal schools don't normally use sign
language...so my remark is more than just speculation. Also, I'm not
saying sign writing might not have been useful (I think it could be very useful
and I tried myself to teach it to a few Deaf people in Jordan), but I am
saying that I doubt these better results stem from the use of sign writing
<STRONG>only</STRONG>. If sign writing was used, that means sign language was
used, and that in itself may have caused better results in the students. In the
school where I worked in Jordan bilingual education was introduced as a test and
this caused significantly better results in the reading skills of
students...without the use of sign writing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bernadet</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>