Can anyone help this New Zealander?...

[Valerie Sutton]

From: STRCOPP at xtra.co.nz
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:13:26 +1300
To: <DAC at SignWriting.org>

SignWriting List
October 25, 2003

Can anyone help this New Zealander?...Write to Tracy privately, as she 
is not on the List right now...Many thanks! Val ;-)

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Dear Valerie
I am a 1st year student at Christchurch College of Education in New 
Zealand.  Our latest assignment is to design a welcome sign, using at 
least 10 different languages to greet families into our centres.
 
My Grandmother in the UK is deaf so it prompted me to use a sign 
language example of 'hello' and 'welcome'.  Unfortunately with Nan 
being 90 years old we have never had to use the tremendous new sign 
writing examples or in fact the ASL.  Therefore any help you could 
provide in enabling me to incorporate the deaf into our community 
welcome poster would be greatly appreciated.
 
I am also interested in the sign language greeting as we have a boy in 
our centre who is physically and mentally handicapped and his great 
teacher Debbie is using sign language to communicate with him although 
he can hear.  I have also briefly read how sign language is being used 
with hearing toddlers to communicate.  We teach them all we can at 
pre-schools and they learn so fast, so why shouldn't sign language be 
incorporated too.  It would benefit us all in the long run.
 
Thank you
 
Kind regards
Tracy