SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Val,

that is fab!

maybe we lots in the ESWO should try and put together the history of
SignWriting in the EU - to encourage the member states to understand
the history and all that! :-) - that is something we can think - what
do you think, Ingvild?

Britta Hansen's first husband - whats his name? :-)

Im studying Advanced BSL Studies at Durham under Judith Collins who
was trained by Mary Brennan - Mary Brennan had so much profound impact
on Judith Collins - Judith was telling me a funny story about Mary
Brennan - one day Mary Brennan observed Judith's signing and said
"Well, you got your grammar wrong etc!" - Judith went ballistic,
saying something like "how dare you judge me like that, im a native
signer, i used BSL all my life etc!" as Mary Brennan was not deaf and
she got to learn BSL quite late etc - later on Judith realised that
Mary Brennan was right after all!!! :-)

I love the fact that her surname is Irish ;-) - and that shes from
Gateshead (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Shane

On 4/2/06, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> April 1, 2006
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> Frank wrote:
> > I noticed the memorial for her in the BSL web site.
> >    Did you also know Britta Hansen, Val, the Denmark Interpreter?
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> Yes, Frank! It was because of Britta, that I knew Mary Brennan.
> Britta's first husband, an interpreter in Scotland and England,
> worked with Mary at the time I presented at Mary's lab in Scotland...
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> Do you know Britta Hansen, Frank?
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> Britta Hansen had a profound influence on SignWriting. Britta was the
> director of the Deaf Center for Total Kommunikation in Copenhagen and
> was the person who invited me to teach SignWriting to the teachers
> and was one of those who decided to use SignWriting in the Danish
> School System...That was back in 1982...
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> SignWriting in Denmark
> http://www.SignWriting.org/denmark
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> you can read about Britta on the above web page...Here is a photo of
> me with Britta. I am teaching SignWriting on the left, and Britta
> interpreted for me, standing to the right...great memory! We made the
> front page of the local Deaf magazine, Dove Bladet ;-))
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