<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 1, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV> Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">many deafies play the race card by pointing it out "Oh it was invented by a hearing woman!"<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That's ok. I know I am handicapped!</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR>Have u spoken to someone at CSD Riverside yet about introducing Written ASL etc? Ask if they can do a wee research project or something like that - you need to get your feet inside one of the great deaf schools of the USA such as Riverside, Fremont, ...</BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Yes. I presented a SignWriting seminar at the Riverside School for the Deaf years ago with Deaf people by my side...in the mid 1980's, and gave away free newspapers to the Deaf staff, spoke with the Principal of the school at that time (Deaf) and years later, in the early 1990's, a born-Deaf native signer, teacher and councelor from the Riverside School for the Deaf chose to work with me, and became a DAC member...you can see him on the web and in our videotapes...his name is Denny Voreck and he said some cool things..even mentioned the Riverside School for the Deaf! and also the Fremont School for the Deaf...his interviews are in both Deaf Perspectives videos on Google, plus Denny had some influence on the way we write today, adding many of the entries into our dictionaries in SignWriter DOS...I have my strong supporters here, Shane...but most Deaf people do not realize that other Deaf people use it here...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Denny Voreck, Interview 1994</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/deaf/deaf004.html">http://www.signwriting.org/deaf/deaf004.html</A></DIV><DIV style=""><TABLE width="300.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 300.0px"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="middle" style="text-align: center;width: 296px; margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; "><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></P><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><IMG src="cid:36A76146-95EB-4C54-B7D2-3C8685291536@local"><TABLE width="300.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 300.0px"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="middle" style="width: 296.0px; margin: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><B>Denny Voreck</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial"><B>1994</B></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">Hi. My name is Denny C. Voreck. I graduated from Fremont School For The Deaf in 1984, and from Gallaudet in the class of '92, but I am loyal to the class of '89.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">I heard a lot about SignWriting. I think the first time I heard about it was at Cindy O'Grady Batch's wedding. I met Valerie Sutton there. She showed me Sign Writing. It looked like Chinese characters to me. It was really weird. But I didn't say anything. I thought it was a little bit crazy. Later, I asked Cindy if she still worked with Valerie Sutton. She said yes, and told me a little bit about it. I was skeptical. I thought "Who really cares?"</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"></FONT><IMG src="cid:A38B2710-C480-4A2D-9271-123EF2F51F8A@local"><TABLE width="300.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 300.0px"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="middle" style="width: 296.0px; margin: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000"><BR></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">After I had graduated,I thought "Why not give it a chance? Work with it a little bit. It can't hurt to try!" So,I talked with Valerie Sutton and later on she called me and said there was a position available. I started learning how to write following the rules. It was a little frustrating getting to know the system. The palm of the hand is represented by white. The back of the hand is represented by black. If the symbol is cut, it represents a different plane to show the third dimension. As I was trained, I started picking up more and more.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">I started working at home on my own computer. I could follow my own schedule. I really enjoyed that a lot. In the middle of the night, if I had nothing to do, I could start working on the SignWriting project. As I became more familiar with the SignWriter computer program, I was fascinated, and I started to tell my friends about it.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">My suggestion for increasing the use of SignWriting would be to start a pilot program at a Deaf school, for example, the Fremont or Riverside Schools For The Deaf. See if it works. Maybe start at the elementary school level and see if the children are successful in learning. If it is effective, it may be used as a model nationwide. It could be used as a model for Gallaudet University and the world...maybe later the Universe! Who knows?!!</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D0000" face="Arial">Now, I feel that SignWriting is very innovative and different. It is unique! All great inventions start with experiments. And sure...a lot of experiments fail, but great inventions happen starting with experiments. I encourage you to see how compatible SignWriting is with ASL. Its success really depends on the Deaf Schools, educational systems, administration, the Deaf Community, and politics.</FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>