SignWriting Mission Statement

[litlegu at AOL.COM]

Hi Val,

It's looking good!  I hope you don't mind, I modified some of the 
grammar (see below).

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

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>
To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Sent: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:34:54 -0700
Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting Mission Statement

  SignWriting ListJune 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 .... "


-------------------



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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