SignWriting Mission Statement

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 18, 2006

Hello Mark and Bill!
Thank you for your suggestions in your messages below. This is so  
helpful! I guess the Mission Statement should be one long  
sentence.... and then Objectives follow...Here is another stab at  
it...is this any better?


SignWriting Mission Statement

Mission:
To provide Deaf communities and signers around the world with a  
written form for all Sign Languages, improving literacy levels of the  
signing-deaf, providing tools and software for education, linguistic  
research and publishing, preserving languages and literature that  
have never been recorded, and providing added respect and self-esteem  
for all those who use Sign Language as their primary language.


Objectives:

1 To provide all Sign Language users a written form for Sign Language.

2 To provide all Deaf cultures a way to document their native languages.

3 To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign Language  
users.

4 To provide software for preparing and publishing written Sign  
Language.

5 To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign Language users.

6 To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and related  
software.

7 To provide free access to lessons, literature and software on the  
World Wide Web.

8 To provide published written Sign Language Literature on library  
shelves.

9 To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic research.

10 To provide employment for Sign Language users and software  
programmers.

11 To assist SignWriting users in communicating and sharing with each  
other.

12 To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written languages!



Val ;-)






On Jun 18, 2006, at 2:59 PM, litlegu at AOL.COM wrote:
> I agree, one mission statement will probably more concisely  
> communicate your efforts.  I wrote my own version below.  Hope it  
> helps!
>
> SignWriting Mission Statement
> "To provide the Deaf community and ... throughout the world with  
> the ability to flourish through the use of their native language."
> Our objectives thus far are the following: (then list the  
> objectives you stated earlier)
>
>
> As for the ... section, I wasn's sure how to state that part.  It  
> should encompss those like teachers, researchers, and so on.   
> Perhaps something like, "those with a vested interest" (which isn't  
> very good)...
>
> Mark

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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Reese <wreese01 at TAMPABAY.RR.COM>
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Sent: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:27:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting Mission Statement
>
>  Val,
>
>  I'm wondering if you could write that into one mission statement  
> that encompasses all those separate missions as tasks. You would  
> have one mission and several tasks to that mission. A broader  
> mission statement then may be "A sustained and verifiable worldwide  
> effort in SignWriting use and development for the promotion and  
> education to and for the Deaf, their teachers, the public and  
> researchers on and for the benefits and applicability of written  
> signed languages. The mission tasks are:
> To provided all .... "

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>
> Bill
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
> > SignWriting List
> > June 18, 2006
> >
> >
> > Ingvild Roald from Norway wrote:
>  >> 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
> >
> >
>  > Thank you, Ingvild! I have added that one. Plus I just got  
> suggestions > for more....
> >
> > So now we have 12! See below...
> >
> > Can anyone think of any more?
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
> > *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 provide free access to lessons, literature and >  
> software on the World Wide Web.
> >
>  > *Mission 8:* To provide published written Sign Language  
> Literature on > library shelves.
> >
>  > *Mission 9:* To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic
>> research.
> >
>  > *Mission 10:* To provide employment for Sign Language users and  
> > software programmers.
> >
>  > *Mission 11:* To assist SignWriting users in communicating and  
> sharing > with each other.
> >
>  > *Mission 12:* To educate the world that Sign Languages are now  
> written > languages!
>
>
>
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