[sw-l] SignWriting Art from Christoph, age 11, in Germany ; -)

[Lucyna Dlugolecka]

> And this saddens me greatly, to hear about Denmark. When I worked with
> the Danish school system in the 1980's they were very strong on
> bi-lingual education that was really great...DSL and spoken Danish were
> treated as two separate languages and SignWriting was a part of that.
> Their bi-lingual education was very sophisiticated and way ahead of its
> time...historically they had really accomplished
> something...SignWriting was used in the schools for Deaf children from
> 1982-1988, and a great report was written about SignWriting in the
> schools...I had plans of translating that report from Danish to
> English, but it takes some time...but that needs to be done...my Danish
> is fluent and I can do the translation and I should, because they
> learned important facts about bi-lingual education and it was
> positive...
>>> And we can proof that -- smile!

Val, but why did they stop using SW?

Lucyna