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Deaf teacher Ingrid ... at Fulton School for the Deaf outside Durban has been using SignWriting<br><br>Ingvild <br><br><br><blockquote><hr>From: signwriting@mac.com<br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] I need some help, please.<br>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:56:53 -0800<br><br>SignWriting List<div>February 7, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>Ida Frank wrote:</div><blockquote><div>I am looking into going to Johannesburg late November early December, Does anyone know anyone using sign-writing in that area that I can visit?</div> <div> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="">Ida</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hello Ida!</div><div>Nice to hear from you -</div><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I know of three groups that have used some SignWriting (a little) in South Africa over a period of years. I am not sure how those projects are going now...but I will be happy to write to them for you.</div><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><b>1. Durban, Fulton School for the Deaf:</b></div><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>SignWriting in South Africa</div><div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/africa/africa.html" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/africa/africa.html</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">see photos above....the Deaf children are great</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">and the teacher is now the principal of the school I believe</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">or at least she was</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>2. University of the Witwatersrand</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">in Wits and in Johannesburg</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">two friends there</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>3. Meraka Institute,CSIR</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Brummeria, Pretoria</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">team of teachers and researchers</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">So I will write to them and get back to you privately...It may take some time though...</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Are you using SignWriting, Ida?</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote></body>
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