<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>February 27, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kathleen Heylen in Belgium wrote:</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was wondering if y'all could help me out. I'm looking for summercourses where I can learn the linguistics of Sign Language....</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tim Grove answered...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">....you might like to check out the courses that SIL run in conjunction with the University of North Dakota. You can find more details at: <A href="http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/courses.htm#SignedLanguages">http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/courses.htm#SignedLanguages</A>.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Kathleen and Tim!</DIV><DIV>Tim is right. The Summer Institute of Linguistics (the SIL) presents a summer course on linguistics in North Dakota, and they present SignWriting there, along with many other things! Two teachers there are Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, who are the authors of the fantastic textbook on SignWriting in Madrid, Spain, called SignoEscritura. Lots of people use their textbook around the world, to learn SignWriting. The Parkhursts also wrote a complete novel in SignWriting in Spanish Sign Language - a bound book with no spoken language in it! An historic first to have a mystery novel completely written in SignWriting!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Others who will be teaching or attending are Stuart Thiessen from Iowa, who is working on a degree in which SignWriting will be an active part, and also a teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Marty Carlson, who uses SignWriting with her Deaf students in Albuquerque, attended the SIL summer course last summer...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>They have used SignPuddle in these courses in the past, to write some Mexican signs from Mexican Sign Language...you can see their signs in the Mexican SignPuddle...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So it is a perfect course for you, Kathleen, because it combines using SignWriting with many other things...I know they give an overview of other linguistic-notation systems too, although they are not designed for the same reason as SignWriting as you know...so you will learn a lot I am sure, plus get to know others who use SignWriting around the world...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here are the people to contact about the SIL Summer Course...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Al Bickford</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:albert_bickford@SIL.ORG">albert_bickford@SIL.ORG</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Steve and Dianne Parkhurst</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:steve-dianne_parkhurst@sil.org">steve-dianne_parkhurst@sil.org</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stuart Thiessen</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:thiessenstuart@gmail.com">thiessenstuart@gmail.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you want to hop on by California on your way home from North Dakota, that would be great to meet you in person - smile!!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope you can go to North Dakota to study with SIL...they are sooo famous!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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">Val ;-)</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Valerie Sutton</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; 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font-size: 12px; ">Make an appointment by email ;-)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">1. SignWriting</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Read & Write Sign Languages</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">2. SignBank</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.SignBank.org">http://www.SignBank.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Sign Language Databases</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">3. 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MovementWriting</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.MovementWriting.org">http://www.MovementWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Read & Write All Body Movement</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">SignWriting Literacy Project</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">The DAC, Deaf Action Committee</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Center For Sutton Movement Writing</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">an educational nonprofit organization</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>