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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span lang=FR-CA
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
mso-ansi-language:FR-CA;font-weight:bold'>Hi Sergio,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span lang=FR-CA
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
mso-ansi-language:FR-CA;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span lang=FR-CA
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
mso-ansi-language:FR-CA;font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><span
class=SpellE>Videos</span>, <span class=SpellE>CD-ROMs</span>, <span
class=SpellE>DVDs</span></span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
lang=FR-CA style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-ansi-language:FR-CA;font-weight:bold'>…
</span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>(<span class=GramE>i.e</span>. </span></font></b><b><font
size=6 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;color:black;font-weight:bold'>technology</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>) are all </span></font></b><span class=SpellE><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>slavedom</span></font></b></span><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Why is this </span></font></b><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>slavedom</span></font></b></span></span><span
class=GramE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'> ?</span></font></b></span><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Because
you need and are dependent<font color=black><span style='color:black'> on a
device or technology</span></font><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.</span></span></span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'> A</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>nd you must stay home (or in your
institution/school).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You cannot go
anywhere else. Well, you may go to </span></font></b><b><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>sit</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> on the beach sand or at a restaurant.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But if you bring a laptop, it could be
damaged by the beach sand. If you leave your laptop on a table
at the restaurant while you go to the toilet, it could be easily stolen as
it is an expensive and quite popular item.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>The poor families cannot afford such devices.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This is too bad.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In <st1:State w:st="on">Quebec</st1:State> (<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>)</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'> the French</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> Deaf community has already been using videotapes,
CD-ROMs and DVDs since 1980.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But, 80% of
the French Deaf community cannot read and write written French without Sign
Writing. (Not only the LSQ.) And,</span></font></b><b><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'> according to the <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>Ministry of Education of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quebec</st1:place></st1:State>, </span></font>60</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>% of the French Deaf </span></font></b><span
class=SpellE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>oralists</span></font></b></span><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'> who do not know sign language cannot read and write written
French.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>To top it off</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>, 85</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>% of the French Deaf community cannot find a job in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quebec</st1:place></st1:State>. A Deaf
education without sign writing is like living in the “Dark Age” but
now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>A SW newspaper, a SW book… let you have freedom.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Why are they like </span></font></b><span
class=GramE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>freedom ?</span></font></b></span><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Because
you do not need and are not dependent<font color=black><span style='color:black'>
on a device or technology</span></font>.</span> And you do not have to stay
home (or in your school).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You can go
anywhere in the world.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If you bring a
book</span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'> and </span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>leave it on a table at a restaurant while you go to the
toilet, the book could (but rarely) be </span></font></b><b><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>stolen</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Poor families
cannot afford books.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>They are very happy
to go to a library where they may borrow books.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>It is unjust and unacceptable that 80% of the French Deaf community
cannot write and read written French, and that 85% of the French Deaf community
cannot find a job.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>According to
<span class=SpellE>Malkowski</span> (Deaf Canadian <span class=SpellE>activtist</span>),</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> 1995, </span></font></b><b><i><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>“bilingual
Bicultural education is first and foremost an empowering education”.</span></font></i></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> All </span></font></b><b><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>empowering</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> educations teach Deaf students to develop the
necessary confidence to </span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>exercise</span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'> their basic rights, to accept their responsibilities to
advocate and to learn to participate in the decision-making process”.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Deaf education must change, it must accept
and respect Sign Writing for Deaf students.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Then, it will be their opportunity to choose either videos, DVDs, SW </span></font></b><span
class=SpellE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>newpapers</span></font></b></span><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>, SW books</span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>…</span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>PAH</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>...!</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'>This would be real</span></font></b><b><font size=6
face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;font-weight:bold'> freedom in our society...!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'>Regards<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>André<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>(p.s.</span></font></b></span><b><font
size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'> I will talk about the Deaf education (Who is using <span class=GramE>SW ?</span>)
later.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sergio Ribeiro<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 janvier 2007 11:34<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [sw-l] SignWriting
Article</span></font><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hello friends,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am writing article about signwriting use
in deaf class, this article will be to the new Magazine. But here in Brazil
many peoples, teacher and linguistics, disagree if writing sign languages is
really important or necessary, because today we have another medias like DVD,
CD-ROM, etc, using video format. What you think about and Deaf members of DAC
have what point of view ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I want to write this more specific is
possible !<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My article title is “SignWriting
– Why not ?”. I will explain about sign language history, Stokoe
studies and notation, person of the pass that say about sign writing possible
like Itard, Bebian and Alexander Graham Bell. But most important point is using
sign language at moment, now. Who are using ? Is signwriting great toll for
teaching deaf in new approach, bilingual approach ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I will be many thankful to see your
opinion ! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:yes'>Sergio Ribeiro</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b><font
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:yes'>Centro
Educacional <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Cultura Surda</st1:PersonName></span></font></b><font
color=red><span style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;mso-ansi-language:
PT-BR;mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://www.culturasurda.com.br/"><span
lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-weight:normal'>www.culturasurda.com.br</span></a></span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=red face=Arial><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;
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