<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>April 27, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Carl and Lucy!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Lucy, for answering Carl's question. It is great to have you back on the SignWriting List ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>And Carl...thank you also for your question below...</div><div><br></div><div>Yes...SignWriting is taught all over the world, and Lucy, who answered you, teaches SignWriting in Poland.</div><div><br></div><div>If you visit our web site:</div><div><br></div><div>SignWriting Site</div><div><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>...you will find many web pages showing Deaf children using and learning SignWriting in Germany, Nicaragua, New Mexico, Belgium, Brazil, France and other countries too...</div><div><br></div><div>How long does it take to learn SignWriting? As Lucy explained, it is no harder than learning to read and write other languages, in fact some people feel it is faster to learn than other writing systems because of the visual nature of the symbols, connected to signs that they already know....</div><div><br></div><div>Would you like to learn? If so, we can help you here on the SignWriting List...</div><div><br></div><div>Start asking questions and we will answer them for you, one by one -</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Lucy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Deaf kids become fluent at SignWriting within the same period of time hearing kids become fluent at writing their spoken language...<br><br>Lucy<br><br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Jones" <<a href="mailto:sugraki@gmail.com">sugraki@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a>><br>Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:22 AM<br>Subject: [sw-l] Teaching children signwriting?<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">First off thanks to the people who sent me the URL to the Bible in ASL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SignWriting.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was wondering if anyone has taught their children signwriting to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with sign language, if the kid is d/Deaf, hard of hearing or just<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hearing, doesn't matter.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How long did it take them to learn if so?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Before I forget, how long would you say it takes someone to become<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'fluent' or 'adept' at SignWriting? Someone asked me two days ago and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I said, "Umm.. I dunno". Wish I could've given a better answer. :)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Carl :-)<br></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>