Report on 1st European SignWriters Symposium.

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 23, 2005

Barbara Pennacchi wrote:
> During this discussion, Juliette from Toulouse (France) described  
> her recent experience of working for about 1 or 2 months with a  
> very small group of deaf children in a bilingual school in her  
> town: the aims of her project were quite similar to Kathleen's  
> project, but differing in the "educative process", as Juliette  
> never used PC for printing or writing SW and, to make children more  
> acquainted with SW, she gave them not only reading exercises but  
> also  lot of writing exercises.

Thanks for telling us this. I did not know that Juliette Dalle was  
working with SignWriting. I donated SignWriting materials to Patrice  
Dalle at their school in Toulouse, France, back in 1999...you can  
read about it on the web in the France section..

http://www.signwriting.org/france/france.html

Is Juliette related to Patrice? They have the same last name! ;-)

And I am excited to learn of Juliette's teaching, writing by hand,  
which is how the Danes and the Deaf people I worked with here in the  
US started years ago...it is great because you do not have to worry  
about teaching computers to your students but can really focus on  
writing SignWriting itself...

Meanwhile I believe Patrice and others in France are working on  
computer programs for SignWriting, so it is good to see so many  
different ways of working with SignWriting there...smile...

Val ;-)