detailed argument for SignWriting to be used in Deaf Education

[Juliette Dalle]

Hello Shane,

Make sure that I don't forget you :-), I ask just you to wait again...

see you soon

July


Le samedi, 28 jan 2006, à 17:11 Europe/Paris, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa 
a écrit :

> Anny,
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> many many thanks for this! :-) - i look forward to receive it.
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> Thierry, July & Kathleen,
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> how did you get your schools to use SignWriting - for what reasons?
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> Shane
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> On 27/01/06, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod <acpg at vtxnet.ch> wrote:
>> did you read Cecilia Flood thesis ?
>> that's a good start about how SW can bring self esteem....
>>
>> I personnally don't have experience using SW with deaf children but 
>> I'm
>> profoundly convinced it can help them acquire litteracy in the oral
>> language... skills in sign language can help deaf children develop 
>> better
>> skill in the oral language
>>
>> There are different works on bilingualism (nothing to do with SW 
>> BUT... )and
>> the advantage of developping good skills in SL in order to help 
>> chiuldren
>> develpop skills in their second language : did you read the different
>> articles of Philip Prinz and Mickael Strong US (I can find the 
>> article if
>> you are interested  I should have it somewhere in my papers...)
>> Did you also read François Grosjean's works on bilingualism 
>> (university of
>> Neuchâtel, Switzerland)... (I have these document in my computer so I 
>> can
>> send them to you if you're interested... just have to check with 
>> François
>> (he used to be my teacher) if it's Ok for me to do so!!)
>>
>> both works tend to show how important it is for deaf kids to develop 
>> good
>> skills in their first language (SL)....
>>
>> I wrote a short text on using Sw to help deaf children develop 
>> litteracy...
>> but it's in french...  (you can find it on the 
>> www.signwriting.org/swiss...)
>>
>> Hope it helped
>>
>> Anny
>>
>>> De: "Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa" <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com>
>>> Répondre à: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:33:00 +0000
>>> À: SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> Objet: [sw-l] detailed argument for SignWriting to be used in Deaf 
>>> Education
>>>
>>> hi everyone,
>>>
>>> sorry for not contributing in the past month - as much as I love you
>>> all, work demands my fullest attention of lately!!!
>>>
>>> as some of you know im one of the Trustees for the Deaf School here 
>>> in
>>> Belfast, im trying to put together a detailed argument why we should
>>> teach sign-writing to deaf children in my School - perhaps you can
>>> tell me why it is important for them to learn this - and for what
>>> purposes?
>>>
>>> Shane xx
>>>
>>>
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