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

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 4, 2005

Flemish SignWriting Literacy Project continued...

b. Was the information clear? Were there specific questions that were 
hard for you to answer?
The children didn’t know what to do at first when they saw the rows of 
symbols. After a short explanation it was easy to just let them work, 
each at their own pace. Some children had questions about the book. 
Especially the students who have Dutch as their first language wanted 
to know why we didn’t write it down in Dutch. Why in SignWriting? And 
as you can imagine, that’s a big question to answer.

c. What improvements would you suggest? Would you add or subtract 
anything?
In the level 1 and level 2 book we made 2 different books. One for 
righthanded signers and one for lefthanded signers. We were curious if 
the children would notice it. We don’t think this has to be done for 
all books from now on, but we wanted to try and see the effect of it. 
Because one of our students was starting to feel a bit diffrent from 
the rest and was trying to change his dominant hand.

Here are some suggestions, lessons that can be related to working with 
the Goldilocks story.

 Activities:

-Telling the story again with pictures

-Using the colouring book.

-Practising SignWriting: in different ways (sand, paint, clay,…) a more 
creative approach.

-Working with handshapes: games, pictures, flashcards, ..

-Sort signs according to the parameters: the signs with the same 
handshape, the signs that are formed at the same place, …

-Sort signs from high to low: (Example below....ASL signs for: dreaming 
– who – Canada)


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