[sw-l] Your assistance in a feature on SignWriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 19, 2005

Are you teaching them to type with the SignWriter Computer Program, or
are they using SignPuddle? They could add the signs they need for one
article in their newsletter into the ASl SignPuddle and then use the
translation tool to translate from word glosses to SignWriting, and
they could publish one article per newsletter in ASL that
way...smile...Val ;-)

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On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> Yes, the President of IAD is coming to our SignWriting class. Like
> most people who see a new thing, he isn't sure about it, but he is
> open to learning about it.  I have always teased him about the IAD
> newsletter. It is called the _Sign Language_. So I keep telling him,
> it won't fully be the _Sign Language_ until it is written in ASL.  :)
> He laughs when I remind him about that.  Who knows?  Someday?
>
> SMILE,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
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>> SignWriting List
>> April 19, 2005
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>> On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>>> I presently live in Des Moines, Iowa. I am teaching SignWriting to
>>> other deaf people in our community. So far, most have been very
>>> positive about being able to read and write in their own language.
>>> So it is exciting.  It is a slow process because there is some
>>> cultural resistance to the idea of deaf people as a minority
>>> language community, but the reality is simple.  Deaf people are a
>>> minority language community in each country and SignWriting is
>>> another tool to support our communities.
>>
>> This is good news, Stuart...So is the President of the Iowa
>> Association of the Deaf attending? I believe you told me that IAD
>> might be attending? If so, any feedback?...  Val ;-)
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