<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>November 12, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hi Betty!</DIV><DIV>I am so impressed with this message. Thank you for telling us about your work. You are an amazing person...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do you ever use SignWriting with your students? You do not need a computer to use SignWriting with your students...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I remember one story...I need to find it in our List Archives...a teacher working with a mentally-handicapped young woman with no or little vocabulary in spoken languages...the teacher wrote the signs for things in SignWriting in ASL...for example...she wrote the sign for CHAIR, and pasted the SignWriting on the chair itself...and wrote the sign for TOILET and pasted the sign on the door of the bathroom...and so forth and the student's vocabulary grew quickly...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So using SignWriting as a way to recognize the name for items has its value...I will look for those email messages and post them shortly...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks again! Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:03 AM, <A href="mailto:BDUMMETTE@AOL.COM">BDUMMETTE@AOL.COM</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="arial,helvetica"><FONT size="5" ptsize="18" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial Black" lang="0"><B>Hello, Stepan<BR> My name is Betty Banks, and I have been in this situation numerous times, and I dealt with it and I would like to tell you, and I wish there was way that the both of us can work with this child, my situation: the boy was the same age and deaf, so we did a lot of gestures, mime, signlanguage,because he needs to communicate outside of a computer, and we did word articulation as well! I need to know is there any bit of a sound, no matter how small, I want for yu to please contact me: 718) 385.3804 or email: <A href="mailto:BDUMMETTE@aol.com">BDUMMETTE@aol.com</A><BR> I think I can help! Right now I am dealing with a client that can not speak, so she calls me every night and we work on the phone with speech sounds and critical thinking, I am a translator and I am expanding my business, with speech as well, I have been taking speech courses forever and I am Legally Deaf and Blind myself, so I know how this work.</B></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>