<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">May 7, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SW List, and AnnaGrace,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for this question about children writing SignWriting by hand - children are more skilled than the adults! And they learn to read faster too - so both the SignWriting Printing, for reading literature, and SignWriting Handwriting, for writing by hand, are actually easy for children who use sign language as their primary language…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Back in 1999, we started the SignWriting Literacy Project:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting Literacy Project</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/forums/literacy/index.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/forums/literacy/index.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And some of the Teacher’s Reports are wonderful, showing photo after photo of Deaf children writing by hand and it is my understanding it was fun!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One such group of photos I fell in love with - from Albuquerque, New Mexico… I believe the child is from a Navajo Indian Tribe nearby - Dr. Cecilia Flood wrote her dissertation on children learning SignWriting and as a part of her dissertation, she studied a classroom of Deaf children learning SignWriting…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6A82D91D-45E3-49FD-8F3A-15690ECDFF51" src="cid:E41AFE70-5FC6-404C-9344-C07413D6A412" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/usa/newmexico/albuquerque/albuqu.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/usa/newmexico/albuquerque/albuqu.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Look at this example below...</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/usa/newmexico/albuquerque/albuqu03.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/usa/newmexico/albuquerque/albuqu03.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="AFD4F75F-4FDC-4165-8A45-021C1EA19CDD" width="398" height="640" src="cid:766217B2-927B-4A6F-B625-2CD988B211CD" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 5, 2022, at 5:04 AM, Ms. AnnaGrace <<a href="mailto:msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM" class="">msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">I love the discussion in this thread.<br class=""><br class="">While readability is important, we should keep in mind the writability of the symbols is also important.<br class=""><br class="">In other words, a person should be able to write without requiring advanced drawing skills (eg, overlapping handshapes). <br class=""><br class="">I ask myself, “Would an eight-year-old child be able to pen this?”<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">AnnaGrace<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">————<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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