Young children learning SignWriting?

Fri Jun 23 12:37:44 UTC 2006

Stuart

thanks for your answer... do you know François Grosjean's work on
bilingualisme and deafness. Grosjean is professor at university of Neuchâtel
>Switzerland and use to be my teacher. He's a friend now... and I really
appreciate his work for the deaf community!

I join you some of his article in english,,,, he's just defending the same
opinion as you....!

Thanks again...

Anny

> De : "Stuart Thiessen" <sw at passitonservices.org>
> Répondre à : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Date : Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:47:16 -0500
> À : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Objet : Re: [sw-l] Young children learning SignWriting?
> 
> Anne, I agree with you 100%. I think this can be one way to avoid the
> language gap that many deaf children face. If hearing parents could
> understand that they can invest in their child by giving them sign
> language in both "spoken" and written form at an early age, then they
> will not have that linguistic dysfunction that happens when they miss
> that window of language learning. With that language investment, then
> they can utilize the knowledge they have gained through the use of sign
> language to be able to learn what they can of spoken languages.
> 
> Someday ... someday ... :)
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 15:36, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
> 
>> I have no experience for now about teaching SW to the kids but I think
>> reading skills are quite easy with SW because the sign on the papers
>> has
>> lots of similarities with the real sign (iconicity)... really young
>> children
>> can easily understand SW words...
>> 
>> I think it's not that easy for writing SW...
>> in order to know how to write a sign... one has to be able to thinks on
>> one's own language... (we need metalinguistic skills which are acquired
>> later on in the language development..)...
>> 
>> but reading  and writing sign languages with SW  is for sure less
>> difficult
>> than  reading  and writing an oral language!! (again because it's more
>> iconic!!) so I bet we can start pretty early to teach deaf kids about
>> this
>> wonderfull system!
>> 
>> my 2 cents
>> 
>> Anny
>> 
>>> De : "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>>> Répondre à : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> Date : Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:22:39 -0700
>>> À : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> Objet : [sw-l] Young children learning SignWriting?
>>> 
>>> SignWriting List
>>> June 15, 2006
>>> 
>>> Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:
>>>> news from our side in Belfast.
>>>> 
>>>> We had our first Education Subcommittee yesterday and we have started
>>>> to plan the Playgroup - we were discussing how SW can be introduced -
>>>> we don't know if SW can be taught to younger kids say aged 3?
>>>> Which age shall SW be introduced to kids then?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Shane!
>>> My experience has been that any age is fine! Reading and writing is
>>> good for people whether they be age 3 or age 83...smile...
>>> 
>>> In Albuquerque, New Mexico, I know of a child age 5 that was
>>> introduced to SignWriting and she could read it quickly...teacher Dr.
>>> Cecilia Flood...I can find that documentation if you wish...
>>> 
>>> Stefan...what age are they learning in Germany?
>>> 
>>> Juliette...what age are they learning in France?
>>> 
>>> Kathleen or Thierry...what age in Belgium?
>>> 
>>> James...what age in Nicaragua?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Val ;-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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