SignWriting Mission Statement

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

a good compromise between deaf and sign language users

very important that we should focus on sign language users - most of
our best signwriters are not deaf :-)

Shane

On 19/06/06, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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."
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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!
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> Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> June 18, 2006
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> 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...
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> What about a paragraph like this instead?
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> 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!
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> On Jun 18, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Bill Reese wrote:
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> 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 ... ."
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> Hi Val,
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> It's looking good!  I hope you don't mind, I modified some of the grammar
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> 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.
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> -----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
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>  SignWriting ListJune 18, 2006
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> 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?
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> SignWriting Mission Statement
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> 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.
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> 1 To provide all Sign Language users a written form for Sign Language.
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> 3 To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign Language users.
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> 4 To provide software for preparing and publishing written Sign Language.
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> 5 To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign Language users.
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> 6 To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and related
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> 7 To provide free access to lessons, literature and software on the World
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> 8 To provide published written Sign Language Literature on library shelves.
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> 9 To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic research.
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> 10 To provide employment for Sign Language users and software programmers.
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> 11 To assist SignWriting users in communicating and sharing with each other.
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> 12 To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written languages!
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> 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!
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> 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
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> 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)...
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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
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>  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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> Valerie Sutton wrote:
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> SignWriting List
> June 18, 2006
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> 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
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>  > Thank you, Ingvild! I have added that one. Plus I just got suggestions >
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> *SignWriting Mission Statement*
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>  > *Mission 1:* To provide all Sign Language users a written form for > Sign
> Language.
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>  > *Mission 2:* To provide all Deaf cultures a way to document their >
> native languages.
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>  > *Mission 3: *To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign >
> Language users.
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>  > *Mission 4:* To provide software for preparing and publishing written >
> Sign Language.
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>  > *Mission 5: *To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign >
> Language users.
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>  > *Mission 6:* To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and >
> related software.
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>  > *Mission 7:* To provide free access to lessons, literature and > software
> on the World Wide Web.
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>  > *Mission 8:* To provide published written Sign Language Literature on >
> library shelves.
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> > *Mission 9:* To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic
> research.
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>  > *Mission 10:* To provide employment for Sign Language users and >
> software programmers.
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>  > *Mission 11:* To assist SignWriting users in communicating and sharing >
> with each other.
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>  > *Mission 12:* To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written >
> languages!
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-- 
Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa D.D.
Sign Language Centre Belfast Trust
15 Church Street
Belfast BT1 1PG
Northern Ireland