[sw-l] Fwd: Re: [slling-l] SL in Mexico?

[Ingvild Roald]

This was on the Sign Linguist list - I know that quite a lot of the
members on the SignWriting list knows about these questions, so I forward
them

Ingvild

[ http://www.sil.org/mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/G009i-Identity-MFS.pdf
]http://www.sil.org/mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/G009i-Identity-MFS.pdf.
:(  It didn't come up for me.

I'm also interested in signed languages from different Spanish Speaking
countries.  I spent all last semester looking for articles written by Deaf
Hispanics about the Deaf Hispanic experience (and found next to nothing
... which is good if I'm looking for a research project, but bad if I'm
looking for info :D)

As far as linguistics, per se, goes  I've found a couple of articles on
DomRepSL & EcuadianSL and have a video with a bit of PuertoRicanSL and
once saw a presentation on CubanSL, but that's about it :(  I've just
gotten ahold of a dissertation that's supposed to look at Deaf Ed in
Hispanic countries, but I haven't even had it long enough to open the
shrink wrap. :)

There was a book published (I've a copy) of LSM ... at first I wondered if
it was "for real" (cause it looked so "signed Englishy" -- lots of signs
are initialized), but then I went to a presentation on LSM at Tampa a few
years back and the 2 researchers explained that one of the differences
between LSM & ASL was the use of initialized signs.  There was something
quite clever with the way the subject is restated, with a particular
"double-take" movement before an action as well (but that's my memory --
and me sitting here at my computer without my notes :)   I did come home
and "re-tape" everything that I could remember as far as signs & grammar
went, but it would be "notes" not "facts" at the very best.

The 2 researchers (can't remember their names right now) had been working
further north than Oxaca (I'd been looking for Deaf in Cuernavaca and
couldn't find them ... and didn't know who to ask :).  I think
the researchers were in San Miguel de Allende or Monterrey (Monterrey, I'm
pretty sure).

Alysse


In a message dated 3/21/2005 12:56:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
barbara.gerner.de.garcia at GALLAUDET.EDU writes:


When I was in Mexico in 2003 at the Latin American Congress on
Bilingual Education of the Deaf I met with a group of educators from
Mexico City.   I do not know about deaf education in Mexico in depth,
but I learned some things that surprised me. Public education of deaf
students in Mexico is primarily provided in special education
classrooms. In 1962 the National Institute for the Deaf was closed by
the government .This means that deaf students are in classes with
hearing children with various disabilities.  This makes it very
difficult to provide education through sign language or have deaf
adults in classrooms - although there are people trying to do this.
There are a number of private schools in Mexico and a very good primary
school for the deaf in Mexico City. Again, the need for quality
education is greater than the programs available.

The International Sign Bibliography has a number of listings under
Mexican Sign Language - http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/

Barbara Gerner de Garcia


On Mar 20, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Albert Bickford wrote:

> Yes, there is a sign language used in towns and major cities
> throughout Mexico.
>
> For starters, see
> http://www.sil.org/mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/G009i-Identity-MFS.pdf.
>
> --Albert
>
> Albert Bickford
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Seegmiller"
> <seegmillerm at mail.montclair.edu>
> To: <slling-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:33 AM
> Subject: [slling-l] SL in Mexico?
>
>
>> On a recent trip to Mexico, I met a young man in Oaxaca who said that
>> there is no formal education of the Deaf there. I don't know if he
>> meant Oaxaca in particular or Mexico in general. Does anyone know
>> about Deaf education in Mexico, if there is a Mexican SL that is in
>> use across the country, and, if so, if there are any studies of it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Steve Seegmiller
>> Linguistics Department
>> Montclair State Univefrsity
>>




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