<div>Dear Ernandes,</div>
<div>Here at the University of Sao Paulo we have conducted the largest study (about deaf language development) in the world. My research associate fellows, doctoral students and I have examined 8,000 Brazilian deaf students from Kindergarten to College from 15 Brazilian states in all geographic regions of the country. Each child was evaluated during 20 hr in a number os skills such as :</div>
<div>alphabetic reading competence (perilexical word decoding via grapheme-phoneme-chereme strategy and orthographic word recognition via lexical strategy)</div>
<div>lipreading or orofacial reading competence (understanding spoken word utterances)</div>
<div>Portuguese receptive vocabulary via orofacial reading (visemic vocabulary)</div>
<div>text comprehension (syntactic processing and semantic extraction from written texts, analysis of error type incidence in ters of cheremic paralexias, semantic paralexias, ortographic paralexias)</div>
<div>expressive written vocabulary (naming pictures and signs via matching to sample) </div>
<div>alphabetical spelling competence (degree of correction of spelling, and analysis of error type incidence in ters of cheremic paragraphias, semantic paragraphias, ortographic paragraphias)</div>
<div>receptive Libras vocabulary (understanding sign utterances).</div>
<div>Multiple regression analyses, cariant analyses followed by contrast analyses and pairwise tests revealed that deaf children language development is greater in especial schools that teach in sign language than it is in regular schools under mainstreaming. My research has impacted on the Ministry of Education, which has created recently the double register, in which each and every deaf child is enrolled in two schools, one especial and the other regular. However, there's much to improve because especial schools that teach in Libras are so rare! That is why we are engaged in a movement to increase the number of those schools throughout Brazil. In the future, there is no doubt SW will be part of our intense educational efforts. I am glad you will join us in this movement. In Manaus Professor Nidia Sa is one of our dearest associates (she is our research associate fellow in Manaus, and has evaluated deaf childrem from Amazon and several Northeast states). Perhaps you may want to join efforts with her. I am forwarding this message to her. Her e-mail is:</div>
<div>"Nídia Regina Limeira de Sá" <<a href="mailto:nidia-regina@hotmail.com">nidia-regina@hotmail.com</a>>, "Nídia Sá" <<a href="mailto:pranidia@gmail.com">pranidia@gmail.com</a>>, </div>
<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Fernando Capovilla, IP-USP</div>
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<div>Fernando Capovilla, PhD, Livre Docente<br>Professor, Instituto de Psicologia, USP<br>Av. Prof. Melo de Morais 1721 <br>São Paulo, SP, 05508-900<br><a href="mailto:fcapovilla@gmail.com">fcapovilla@gmail.com</a></div>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear Valerie and Fernando,</span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy" lang="EN-US">I am a hearing Postman in Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company since 1991 and I am very interested in deaf people in my city, Manaus, in the state of Amazon. I am very sad to see the unrespectful way that deaf people have been treated in Manaus schools, mainly in the public ones. For example, deaf children are included in hearing students classroms with an interpreter that make the deaf ones enjoy just partially what is explaned. I am really sorry about that. For this reason I think we will have to wait a little more time to create a Singwriting culture here in Amazon. However, as I do not intend to wait too much time to watch that occurs, I and my two sons, Ernan (12 years old) and Lucas (9 years old) are doing a LIBRAS course in a Deaf Association, named <b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ASMAN</span></i></b> (<b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Associação</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">de</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Surdos</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">de</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Manaus</span></i></b> or “Manaus Deaf Association”). Unfortnately, that association does not have much financial support from Amazon authorities. I would rather prefer to do something about it in advance. So, how could you help me to do something really practical to learn and multiplicate SW to deaf here, as we do not have any schools that teach SW in our region? Since now, I am very gratful for your precious help.</span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font color="navy" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ernandes Barroso Lourenço</span></font></p>
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