SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)

[Frank]

Dear Val,
   This sounds interesting.  I hope that Ingvild writes this history.
   Love, Frank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
To: <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:11 PM
Subject: [sw-l] SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)


> SignWriting List
> April 3, 2006
> 
>   Ingvild Roald in Norway wrote:
> > Yes, we certainly could try to put together the history of SW in  
> > Europe - I first met sign writing when I was on a study visit to  
> > the school in Copenhagen in october 1982, the very year they  
> > started using it there. A deaf girl, mabe 12 years old, prodly  
> > showed me that she could write her own language. Since then I have  
> > been hooked ....
> 
> Hello Ingvild!
> We must have just missed each other...I believe I had left Copenhagen  
> when you were there...Was this the Deaf child you spoke to? (see web  
> page below)...She and her brother both attended the workshops that I  
> taught...They were the only children who attended, along with around  
> 20 teachers, and then the next year they learned it in school...but  
> they were ahead of all their classmates because they had learned it  
> earlier ;-)
> 
> See this web page:
> http://signwriting.org/deaf/deaf013.html
> 
> It would be great to write a European history of SignWriting...it  
> would take some time to reconstruct it and document it!
> 
> Val ;-)
> 
>