<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div class="">November 10, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SW List, and welcome Alex Garcia, as a new member of the SW List!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Alex, for contacting me through Facebook Messenger, and telling me about your work with Deaf-Blind issues. I am very impressed, of course, with all you are doing for the world. I am happy you accepted my invitation to join the SignWriting List, because we have several members of our List, who are either Deaf-Blind themselves, or who have experience with using SignWriting for Deaf-Blind communication.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just recently, there have been two Congresses, or presentations, related to SignWriting in Brazil, and in both there have been mentions of SignWriting possibly used in Deaf-Blind communication.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In one presentation, Adam Frost presented SignWriting:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Adam Frost SignWrfiting Presentation</div><div class="">CICLO ACADÊMICO EM LIBRAS- 19/10</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZR7P7ASco" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZR7P7ASco</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...and there was a question following his presentation, about the idea of raising the outline of each SignWriting symbol so that people can feel the symbol by following the 3-D outline with their fingertips. I thought both the question, and Adam’s answer, were excellent and started me to think about this issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The question on the video starts around 1:24:50, but the entire video is really excellent!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="52C26250-0A3B-4478-BC5E-14CD64A8DACB" width="640" height="193" src="cid:CC12196A-4F2D-44E6-A15A-C9217A3777E8" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you can see by this attached screen capture, the sign is raised like 3-D.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If there is anyone here on the SW List who has opinions, please feel free to post them - Discussions are so important. What do you think, Alex?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">___________<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 10, 2021, at 4:54 AM, Alex Garcia <<a href="mailto:agapasm@AGAPASM.COM.BR" class="">agapasm@AGAPASM.COM.BR</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Val! Very Good!<br class=""><br class="">Hugs! Alex - Brazil</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">___________<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 9, 2021, at 8:27 AM, Alex Garcia <<a href="mailto:agapasm@AGAPASM.COM.BR" class="">agapasm@AGAPASM.COM.BR</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello SW List!<br class=""><br class="">Hello Valerie and Honza!<br class=""><br class="">Hello! My name is Alex Garcia - Deafblind Person and Person with Hydrocephalus and Rare Disease from Brazil.<br class=""><br class="">Alex Garcia's profile clik here:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.agapasm.com.br/Artigos/Alex%20-%20Perfil%20Ingles.pdf" class="">http://www.agapasm.com.br/Artigos/Alex%20-%20Perfil%20Ingles.pdf</a> <br class=""><br class="">Alex Garcia's reflections clik here:<br class=""><br class="">http://www.agapasm.com.br/english.asp <br class=""><br class="">I enjoy getting to know the World of Communication!<br class="">I appreciate knowing actions and people around the world.<br class="">I appreciate sharing good initiatives.<br class="">I have an immense network of contacts in the world.<br class="">I believe we should give SignWriter more visibility.<br class=""><br class="">God Bless and We keep in touch!<br class=""><br class="">Alex Garcia - Brazil<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________

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