<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">June 28, 2018</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Diego (Dale ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Welcome to the SignWriting List. I am so glad to know about your Nicaraguan Sign Language project in Nicaragua. Thank you for writing to me privately back in April 2018, and now you are here on the SignWriting List. This is great news.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James and Judy Shepard-Kegl have done so much important work, providing schools for Deaf children in Nicaragua, and writing Nicaraguan Sign Language. I am happy to know you are in touch with each other.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those new to this topic, written Nicaraguan Sign Language in SignWriting can be accessed through the internet. Here are some important links:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting in Nicaragua</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Literacy in Nicaraguan Sign Language</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/rese003.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/rese003.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignPuddle for Nicaraguan Sign Language</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-NI" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-NI</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nicaraguan Sign Language Dictionary</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=5&sgn=67" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=5&sgn=67</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nicaraguan Sign Language Literature</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=5&sgn=119" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=5&sgn=119</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Presentation by James Shepard-Kegl at the SignWriting Symposium</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0050.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0050.html</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0050.html#video" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0050.html#video</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep us informed, Diego, of your news and if you need assistance in writing Nicaraguan Sign Language using SignPuddle or other software, or want to discuss how to write certain signs, write to ask questions here on the SignWriting List -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Look forward to more communication -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="2A8E2F93-674D-4922-840C-A78DB666487C" src="cid:2170C804-DFB5-4316-A2B7-C5A48C8DAE3C@san.rr.com" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 27, 2018, at 9:38 PM, Dale Spoor <<a href="mailto:dale.spoor27@GMAIL.COM" class="">dale.spoor27@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My name is Dale Spoor, but I go by "Diego" with my Spanish speaking friends. I live on the island of Bainbridge, a short ferry ride from Seattle. I am the chairperson of the Special Needs Committee of the Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association. For over thirty years we have been working cooperatively with our friends on Ometepe (located in Lake Nicaragua) in projects in health and education. For the past ten years of so we have organized projects for people in the special needs community on Ometepe.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I first met the deaf children in 2006, neither their parents or they knew that Nicaraguan Sign Language existed. T<span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Lucida Grande"" class="">here were no governmental programs for the deaf. The children did not attend school. About a year later we began providing workshops in Nicaraguan Sign Language for children and their family members--something we continue every Saturday. Originally we brought two deaf teachers from eastern Nicaragua to conduct the classes, but now our older students who have become more fluent do the teaching. Five deaf students, assisted by the interpreter we helped to train, are now in their third year of high school on the island.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Lucida Grande"" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Currently I am collecting donated iPads and installing the Nicaraguan Sign Language Dictionary created by James and Judy Kegl. When things settle down there politically I plan to deliver the iPads to the children we work with and teach them Signwriting. James Kegl is assisting me in learning Signwriting, and I hope to visit Ometepe in January to do the workshops.</span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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