SignWriting Mission Statement

Mon Jun 19 13:08:31 UTC 2006

I'd change the first sentence:

  To provide all Sign Language users a written form for their languages..... (and shouldn't the last sentence be.... Sign Writing is "a" written form for all sign languages."  

  Although Sign Writing and Sutton Movement Writing in general CAN write all movement, HamNoSys and Stokoe notation are written forms of particular signed languages so the sentence is not true with "the" as in "the only".  It is true if one says that 

  Sign Writing is the only writing system that "CAN" write all sign languages and it is our mission to tell the world that signed languages are now written languages.

  Mission: To provide all Sign Language users a written form for their language.To provide all Deaf cultures written Sign Language Literature to preserve their Sign Language poetry, stories, and to document their native language. To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign Language users, placing their languages equally beside spoken languages, on library shelves. SignWriting is the written form for all Sign Languages, and it is our mission to tell the world that Sign Languages are now written languages!

  Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM> wrote:  SignWriting List  June 18, 2006

  Hello Mark and Bill...
  This is an excellent example, that even an old writing system like English, can have different ways of writing grammar, depending on the writer and the reader! The sentence is a long and complicated one...

  What about a paragraph like this instead?

  Mission: To provide all Sign Language users a written form for their language.To provide all Deaf cultures written Sign Language Literature to preserve their Sign Language poetry, stories, and to document their native language. To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign Language users, placing their languages equally beside spoken languages, on library shelves. SignWriting is the written form for all Sign Languages, and it is our mission to tell the world that Sign Languages are now written languages!

  Val ;-)

    On Jun 18, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Bill Reese wrote:

    Mark, I was reading Val's statement a little differently with the "improving", "providing", and "preserving" statements as being participle adjective phrases modifying the infinitive phrase "To provide ... ."

  Bill

  litlegu at AOL.COM wrote:
    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 .... "

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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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