SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)

[Ingvild Roald]

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 ....

Ingvild




>From: "Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa" <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)
>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:05:33 +0100
>
>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
> >
> > Frank wrote:
> > > I noticed the memorial for her in the BSL web site.
> > >    Did you also know Britta Hansen, Val, the Denmark Interpreter?
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > Do you know Britta Hansen, Frank?
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > SignWriting in Denmark
> > http://www.SignWriting.org/denmark
> >
> > 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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