[sw-l] LITERACY Project Report, Belgium (Flanders)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 4, 2005

Flemish SignWriting Literacy Project continued...

We also adjusted the ASL to VGT. The children loved the drawings and 
the sign for ‘house’ was pretty clear to them. The first question most 
children had was: ‘Can we color the drawings?’. So we think that’s a 
big success.

The kids also liked writing the symbols and signs. Some children had 
more difficulties doing so because they did not know how to begin 
writing the symbols. What to draw first, how to start making this 
shape. We saw children making minor mistakes, they forgot to color the 
handshape black or forgot a thumb... but by doing so, we could show the 
children the effect of writing a mistake. If you forget a thumb, you 
get a whole diffrent handshape. And the meaning of the sign can even 
change....


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