Kathleens visit to Dublin

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Kathleen,

too bad we didnt meet up - i had the date put down in my diary - but I was
busy chasing after my 30 teachers (FOUR SICK TEACHERS ON MY HANDS AND
SEVERAL ANNOYING SCHOOLS!!!)

i ll reply to Val's piece of history - theres alot of controversy down
South.

Patrick Matthews - I am disappointed that he didnt choose to teach
SignWriting to the students at the CDS - it would make a big impact - but I
will meet up with Pat McDowell the new CDS Director and talk to him about
that - I ll want to talk to him about having the CDS students learning NISL
(we will expect our own interpreters up North to learn ISL & NISL - its
natural that terps down South would do the same)

Even so, he isnt very good at marketing the SignWriting in Ireland.

I hope with your visit to him, Kathleen, it will make him think - but hes
one of the people who think its okay for them to keep things to themselves -
thats from the general deaf population (thats the general attitude among the
deaf academics in the UK and Ireland) - for instance I am very impressed by
the deaf academics in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany etc - they DO get
involved in deaf politics, trying to change deaf education - for instance
Thierry on the LSFB Commission, his hard works with the deaf schools in
South Belgium - and for instance Kristof and his gang in North Belgium so on
- if it wasnt for universities etc, SignWriting wont be introduced to
Kasterlinden - and theres a good chance Kasterlinden might not even go
bilingual if it wasn't for the universities.

With attitudes like that in Dublin, I dont think we ll see SignWriting being
introduced to the 3 deaf schools at Cabra :-(

Shane

On 07/11/05, Kasterlinden Bilinguaal <katjesaar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Val and list,
>   I just got back from one week in Dublin. It was grand. I visited the CDS
> (Centre for Deaf studies) and met Patrick Matthew - he told me he visited
> you once in San Diego :)
> They were all such sweet and friendly people. I discussed SignWriting with
> him because he's working on his Phd about writing systems for Sign Language.
> - I was so happy ;) -
> We exchanged email and he wants to ask questions about how we use it in
> our daily education with Deaf children.
>  I also made a report - that's almost finished - I'll post it on the list
> ;) It was soooo interessting!
>    Evolution in SignSpelling?
>  Yes, it's possible... look here ;)
>  [image: Kathleen] [image: Kathleen_2] [image: Kathleen_3]
>  This is my name 'Kathleen', you can see how I made the first sign in
> September 2004, the middle one I made june 2005 and the last one I made
> november 2005.
>  You see the difference?
>   smile ;)
>  Greetings Kathleen
> Have a nice day!
>
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