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@Valerie<br>
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Hello :-)<br>
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My deaf-born son Samuel (6 years old) is with me for the Weekend,
together with his 2 younger sisters, Madita (4years) and Rabea (2
years) - both sisters are hearing but can communicate with Samuel with
signs.<br>
And as i practiced signwriting today, Samuel looked at me very curious.
So he would try this too. I gave him a print-out of Goldilocks (level
1) book. And here attached i must show you the very first signwriting
he ever done. He had never wrote signwriting before.<br>
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And he really liked to write this <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span> (for a short time) - he has the 'problem?' that he
can never be attentive on one thing for a longer time, he is always
soon distracted (even if there is no distraction around) - but i'm
happy that he asked and tried to write by himself <span
class="moz-smiley-s5"><span> :-D </span></span> i showed to him
the difference between 'white' and 'black' symbols, and he quickly
understands (will see tomorrow if he will continue on this - hope so).<br>
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Is it possible that one can take 'goldilocks' (or other
signwriting-child-literature) and translate it in other languages? The
reason i ask this is, in Luxembourg deaf-children are learning German
language in School (with signed German - but not German Sign-language)
But at Home we always try to 'speak' to him in DGS (Deutsche
Gebärdensprache), so learning him signwriting from a Book who uses ASL,
i think he will get not much benefit of this, so maybe i can <big><big><i><b>try</b></i></big></big>
to do this book(s) in DGS? To what must one pay attention for that the
book will really be "Level 1" ?<br>
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<i>Thanks Val </i><span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span> ;-) </span></span><br>
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