Kathleen,<br>
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too bad we didnt meet up - i had the date put down in my diary - but I
was busy chasing after my 30 teachers (FOUR SICK TEACHERS ON MY HANDS
AND SEVERAL ANNOYING SCHOOLS!!!)<br>
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i ll reply to Val's piece of history - theres alot of controversy down South.<br>
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Patrick Matthews - I am disappointed that he didnt choose to teach
SignWriting to the students at the CDS - it would make a big impact -
but I will meet up with Pat McDowell the new CDS Director and talk to
him about that - I ll want to talk to him about having the CDS students
learning NISL (we will expect our own interpreters up North to learn
ISL & NISL - its natural that terps down South would do the same)<br>
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Even so, he isnt very good at marketing the SignWriting in Ireland.<br>
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I hope with your visit to him, Kathleen, it will make him think - but
hes one of the people who think its okay for them to keep things to
themselves - thats from the general deaf population (thats the general
attitude among the deaf academics in the UK and Ireland) - for instance
I am very impressed by the deaf academics in Belgium, the Netherlands,
Germany etc - they DO get involved in deaf politics, trying to change
deaf education - for instance Thierry on the LSFB Commission, his hard
works with the deaf schools in South Belgium - and for instance Kristof
and his gang in North Belgium so on - if it wasnt for universities etc,
SignWriting wont be introduced to Kasterlinden - and theres a good
chance Kasterlinden might not even go bilingual if it wasn't for the
universities.<br>
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With attitudes like that in Dublin, I dont think we ll see SignWriting being introduced to the 3 deaf schools at Cabra :-(<br>
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Shane<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kasterlinden Bilinguaal</b> <<a href="mailto:katjesaar@hotmail.com">katjesaar@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Hello Val and list,</div>
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<div>I just got back from one week in Dublin. It was grand. I visited
the CDS (Centre for Deaf studies) and met Patrick Matthew - he told me
he visited you once in San Diego :) </div>
<div>They were all such sweet and friendly people. I discussed
SignWriting with him because he's working on his Phd about writing
systems for Sign Language. - I was so happy ;) -</div>
<div>We exchanged email and he wants to ask questions about how we use it in our daily education with Deaf children.</div>
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<div>I also made a report - that's almost finished - I'll post it on the list ;) It was soooo interessting!</div>
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<div><font color="#0000cc">Evolution in SignSpelling? </font></div>
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<div>Yes, it's possible... look here ;)</div>
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<div><img alt="Kathleen" src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/sl/Kathleen.png" align="middle" border="0"> <img src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/space_h.png" align="middle"><img alt="Kathleen_2" src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/sl/Kathleen_2.png" align="middle" border="0">
<img src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/space_h.png" align="middle"><img alt="Kathleen_3" src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/sl/Kathleen_3.png" align="middle" border="0"></div>
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<div>This is my name 'Kathleen', you can see how I made the first sign
in September 2004, the middle one I made june 2005 and the last one I
made november 2005.</div>
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<div>You see the difference? </div>
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<div><img src="http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/015/001_pc-evolutie.jpg"> smile ;)</div>
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<div>Greetings Kathleen</div>
<div>Have a nice day!</div><span class="ad">
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