Young children learning SignWriting?

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Anne-Claude,

many thanks for the documents - they are useful for me.

cheers,

Shane

On 23/06/06, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod <acpg at vtxnet.ch> wrote:
> Stuart
>
> thanks for your answer... do you know François Grosjean's work on
> bilingualisme and deafness. Grosjean is professor at university of Neuchâtel
> >Switzerland and use to be my teacher. He's a friend now... and I really
> appreciate his work for the deaf community!
>
> I join you some of his article in english,,,, he's just defending the same
> opinion as you....!
>
> Thanks again...
>
> Anny
>
> > De: "Stuart Thiessen" <sw at passitonservices.org>
> > Répondre à: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:47:16 -0500
> > À: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Objet: Re: [sw-l] Young children learning SignWriting?
> >
> > Anne, I agree with you 100%. I think this can be one way to avoid the
> > language gap that many deaf children face. If hearing parents could
> > understand that they can invest in their child by giving them sign
> > language in both "spoken" and written form at an early age, then they
> > will not have that linguistic dysfunction that happens when they miss
> > that window of language learning. With that language investment, then
> > they can utilize the knowledge they have gained through the use of sign
> > language to be able to learn what they can of spoken languages.
> >
> > Someday ... someday ... :)
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > On Jun 22, 2006, at 15:36, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
> >
> >> I have no experience for now about teaching SW to the kids but I think
> >> reading skills are quite easy with SW because the sign on the papers
> >> has
> >> lots of similarities with the real sign (iconicity)... really young
> >> children
> >> can easily understand SW words...
> >>
> >> I think it's not that easy for writing SW...
> >> in order to know how to write a sign... one has to be able to thinks on
> >> one's own language... (we need metalinguistic skills which are acquired
> >> later on in the language development..)...
> >>
> >> but reading  and writing sign languages with SW  is for sure less
> >> difficult
> >> than  reading  and writing an oral language!! (again because it's more
> >> iconic!!) so I bet we can start pretty early to teach deaf kids about
> >> this
> >> wonderfull system!
> >>
> >> my 2 cents
> >>
> >> Anny
> >>
> >>> De: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> >>> Répondre à: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >>> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:22:39 -0700
> >>> À: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >>> Objet: [sw-l] Young children learning SignWriting?
> >>>
> >>> SignWriting List
> >>> June 15, 2006
> >>>
> >>> Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:
> >>>> news from our side in Belfast.
> >>>>
> >>>> We had our first Education Subcommittee yesterday and we have started
> >>>> to plan the Playgroup - we were discussing how SW can be introduced -
> >>>> we don't know if SW can be taught to younger kids say aged 3?
> >>>> Which age shall SW be introduced to kids then?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Shane!
> >>> My experience has been that any age is fine! Reading and writing is
> >>> good for people whether they be age 3 or age 83...smile...
> >>>
> >>> In Albuquerque, New Mexico, I know of a child age 5 that was
> >>> introduced to SignWriting and she could read it quickly...teacher Dr.
> >>> Cecilia Flood...I can find that documentation if you wish...
> >>>
> >>> Stefan...what age are they learning in Germany?
> >>>
> >>> Juliette...what age are they learning in France?
> >>>
> >>> Kathleen or Thierry...what age in Belgium?
> >>>
> >>> James...what age in Nicaragua?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Val ;-)
> >>>
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-- 
Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa D.D.
Sign Language Centre Belfast Trust
15 Church Street
Belfast BT1 1PG
Northern Ireland