<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="">January 3, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Dale Spoor, James Kegl, and the Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects team - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a great photo. Thank you for sharing with us. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And what a remarkable accomplishment. Congratulations to the 5 Deaf students from the Altagracia High School on the Island of Ometepe, Nicaragua, who now have graduated and can make plans to continue on to higher education. It is hard to comprehend how much work this must have been for them and all the obstacles they faced, along with their teachers. But you have succeeded - The story is an inspiration and thank you for giving the world a positive story ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And guess what? James Kegl sent us a video in Nicaragaun Sign Language with SignWriting in the video, and James has given me permission to post it on our web site - just as soon as I have the web page ready I will share it with the SignWriting List - Thanks again, James.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And thanks again, Dale -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay well and keep posting progress -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 1, 2021, at 11:04 AM, 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="">Correction: "Many thanks to James Kegl and the Nicaraguan Sign Language Project, <u class="">without</u> whose help this would not have been possible". Sorry for the confusion!</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>-----------<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 1, 2021, at 10:28 AM, 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="">And a Happy New Year to All. We recently celebrated the graduation of five deaf students from the high school in Altagracia, island of Ometepe (Niccaragua)--photo attached, including their interpreter.<img apple-inline="yes" id="62E4DA2F-4E48-4FEF-A7E5-53553679DA06" src="cid:ii_kjeltesh1" class=""><br class="">One of these deaf students (the tall guy on the left) consistently achieved the highest grade point average in his class throughout the five years--including all of the hearing students. It's been a long journey, beginning almost fifteen years ago when we first had contact with these students and learned that they did not know that any sign language existed they could use to communicate with family and friends. Two of these young people have plans to attend college--one to become a sign language teacher for the deaf, the other a math teacher for the deaf. Considering that few of them had anything resembling an elementary school education, this is an extraordinary achievement for everyone. Many thanks to James Kegl and the Nicaraguan Sign Language Project, with whose assistance this would not have been possible.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dale Spoor, Chair</div><div class="">Special Needs Committee</div><div class="">Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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