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Could you manange to have it scanned and sent to me? (As you know, we read Danish as well as Norwegian ...)<br>Sounds very interesting to have even more research / serious reports on SignWriting to support the use in schools<br><br>Ingvild <br><br><br><blockquote><hr>From: sutton@signwriting.org<br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] Deaf school (Denmark)<br>Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:13:39 -0700<br><br>SignWriting List<div>May 21, 2008</div><div><br><div><div><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff">Andre from French-Canada wrote:</font></div><blockquote><span class="EC_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; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><strong><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Hi Val and everyone,</span></font></strong></div><div><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174);">I am curious if you have a 80 pages published report (English) from Denmark (Research Project at the Deaf school,"Instruction in SignWriting/Sign Language", 1985).</span></font></div><div><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174);">Kind regards,</span></div><div><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174);">André</span></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Hello Andre!</div><div>I am sorry to tell you I only have the book in Danish, and although I could easily translate it myself into English, and so could several other friends of mine, the translation never got done...so it is still only in Danish...but I agree it would be great to have an English version and in time I will try to get the whole Danish book scanned in so we can do the translation quickly...</div><div><br></div><div>See below for the description of the Danish publication...</div><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div><br></div><div><br></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;">Research Project At The Deaf School</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;">At Randersgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985</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;">"Instruction In SignWriting/Sign Language"</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;">Forsogsprojekt Paa Doveskolen</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;">I Randersgade Kobenhavn, Danmark, 1985</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;">"Undervisning I Tegnskrift/Tegnsprog"</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;">AUTHORS:</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;">Ivan Bentzen, Dietgard Glebke, Inger Kjaer, Bente Sparrevohn</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;">Published by:</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;">Copenhagen's School System Research Department</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;">Kobenhavns kommunale Skolevaesen Forsogsafdelingen</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;">ISBN: 87-7346-145-8</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><p style="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; min-height: 14px;"> <br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></p><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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;"> This is an 80-page published report from Denmark. SignWriting was taught to Deaf children in the Danish School System in the 1980's. This report summarizes the results and is quite detailed.</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;"> The report is written in Danish and Danish Sign Language. The teachers state their objectives, discuss the children, show examples of their work, and then summarize with the results and opinions from the participants. There are also specific examples of how they taught SignWriting, what was hard, what was easy, and so forth.</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;"> I will be happy to translate the Danish into English, and publish the report on our SignWriting Web Site, but first I will write to the publishers and authors for permission. So hopefully that will happen in the future!</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;"> For further information, write to me :-)</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; min-height: 14px;"><br></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;"> Valerie Sutton</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;"> <a href="mailto:DAC@SignWriting.org">DAC@SignWriting.org</a> </div></div></div></blockquote></body>
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