<div>I think that with the Linguistics conference in Brazil this December you may also be getting some critical information. The classes coming from Brazilian sign language linguistics studies will ALL incorporate SW in the presentations and the conference is co-sponsored by Gallaudet University, so this will be a scholarly exposure that is rare.</div> <div> </div> <div>charles butler</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>October 20, 2006<BR><BR>Stuart Thiessen wrote:<BR><BR>> We are working on it! :) We have talked with the Superintendent. <BR>> We also had the President-to-be from Gally come for the Iowa <BR>> Association of the Deaf's 125th Anniversary Banquet. We also talked <BR>> with her about SignWriting. So we are pushing it everywhere we <BR>> can. :) We also tried
to convince our local public school Deaf <BR>> Program to consider it.<BR><BR>Wonderful!!<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> The challenge is that it is "one more program" in the midst of many <BR>> programs that are competing for their attention. I would like to <BR>> team up with the Alberquerque people and Cheri and others who I may <BR>> not know about to see if together we can create a presentation that <BR>> can be used by SW advocates to help convince public school <BR>> administrators, educators, etc. to be aware of SW and its benefits. <BR>> But like many ideas, we just need to achieve some critical mass <BR>> before it can happen. But I'm offering the idea :).<BR><BR>I think that is a great idea!<BR><BR>Such a presentation could arranged in 2007...maybe Spring 2007 one <BR>presentation could be arranged at a school for the Deaf, and if it <BR>goes well, others can be scheduled, perhaps at MSSD at Gallaudet...we <BR>could setup a presentation of
teachers and Deaf educators who present <BR>to different schools...it would be fun and create some productive <BR>dialogue...<BR><BR>Val ;-)<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>