<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">January 30, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Maureen from the UK!</div><div class="">What a nice surprise to hear from you on the SignWriting List! Thank you for writing and for everything that you said. It's great to hear from you again. And congratulations on all your successes. You are a remarkable person and Southport is fortunate to have you there providing sign language services.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for mentioning the SignWriting workshop you and Suzanne Pach presented back in 2010….Here is a PDF that documents what happened that day.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Talk to you later… Blessings, Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="DB965708-DB32-442C-A26D-767CFC18284D" width="463" height="640" src="cid:FE08E3DA-C2F2-4697-8B66-0CD982110A6C" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Complete Report</div><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0614_UK_Report_SignWritingWorkshop_2010.pdf" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0614_UK_Report_SignWritingWorkshop_2010.pdf</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 30, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Maureen Doyle <maureengndoyle@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi. Im Maureen Doyle from Southport England .I too was extremely impressed with Valerie Sutton's creation of SignWriting when I came across it on the internet many years ago. I couldnt believe that this amazing way for Deaf signers to write down their language wasnt heard about or used here in England. <br class="">A bit about me. Over 25 years ago I started a voluntary group to teach people Sign language as I had been on a course with my daughter and people who knew me wanted to learn. There wasn't any courses available in the area. So I started helping others but no charge. Over the years my group has grown unbelievably and I/we have won awards as a voluntary group. No one is paid.<br class=""> When I started my group I didnt realize I that I had found my purpose in life. Im now 78 years old.<br class="">My website is www.practicemakesperfect.org.uk <br class="">there are links on the homepage to my new YouTube channel .People from anywhere can learn British Sign Language from the video topics from my dvd . Recently we were fortunate enough to get some funding £800 to add English subtitles .I'm hoping to get funding of £1,000 in the near future to have a replication run of 1,000 dvd's so that I can support more people who want to learn but need subtitles and dont have access to the internet.<br class="">Links to our Facebook groups and Pintrest board files are also on our homepage.<br class=""><br class="">We held a SignWriting day work shop for some of our committee members and others to learn SW. It was a success.<br class="">One weekend I started adding to the British SW Dictionary by using the American SW Dictionary and finding signs that were the same as British and copying them to the British Dictionary. I managed to complete about 1,000 signs and recently I asked Valerie for a link so that I could down load and print out the British SW dictionary. <br class="">I dont know if my experience with Sign language and SignWriting is of interest to you but I felt that I should share it with you. <br class="">My best wishes to you with your endeavour. <br class="">Maureen <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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