
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>SignWriting List</DIV><DIV>May 22, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>James Shepard-Kegl wrote regarding Nicaragua...</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">The Condega Deaf school, operated by an organization called Los Pipitos, and the Bluefields Deaf school were the only Deaf schools in Nicaragua to employ Deaf teachers and to teach SignWriting...</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dear SW List, James -</DIV><DIV>I am sorry you are having financial problems, James, and I admire you, that you keep going....Keep courage. You are doing a lot for Nicaraguan children...your Sign Language/SignWriting educational programs have worked well...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oralism will come and go throughout history, but Sign Languages and SignWriting will always exist no matter what the trend is in Deaf Education...In my opinion, you made the right choice to use Nicaraguan Sign Language with your students...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/">http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html">http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.nslpinc.org">http://www.nslpinc.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>