SignWriting Mission Statement

Ingvild Roald iroald at HOTMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 18 18:26:54 UTC 2006


Wonderfull! Thanks - we would use some of this for the European Sign 
Writers' charter/ constitution.

Just one thing more: To give free accsess through the World Wide Web for 
basic software, lessons, and litterature in SignWriting - or something along 
these lines

Ingvild




>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>Subject: [sw-l] SignWriting Mission Statement
>Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:53:46 -0700
>
>SignWriting List
>June 18, 2006
>
>Dear SW List -
>Recently I have been writing a grant, and they asked me what our  Mission 
>was?
>
>This is what I wrote. Does this seem clear to all of you? Anything  you 
>would add or change?...
>
>A Mission Statement means ...what is our goal?....what is our hope  for the 
>future?...
>
>
>SignWriting Mission Statement
>
>Mission 1: To provide all Sign Language users a written form for Sign  
>Language.
>
>Mission 2: To provide all Deaf cultures a way to document their  native 
>languages.
>
>Mission 3: To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign  
>Language users.
>
>Mission 4: To provide software for preparing and publishing written  Sign 
>Language.
>
>Mission 5: To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign  Language 
>users.
>
>Mission 6: To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and  
>related software.
>
>Mission 7: To place published written Sign Language Literature on  library 
>shelves.
>
>Mission 8: To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written  
>languages!
>
>
>Val ;-)



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