SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)

[Ingvild Roald]

The girl I met was at Skolen på Kastelvej - and 10-12 years old

Ingvild




>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] SignWriting in Denmark 1982 ;-)
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 18:11:04 -0700
>
>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 ;-)
>