SW Instruction Book SignoEscritura in English

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 2, 2006

SignoEscritura
SignWriting Instruction Textbook
in Spanish Sign Language
by Steve and Dianne Parkhurst

English Translation of Introduction:

ABOUT THESE LESSONS



SignWriting® was invented by Valerie Sutton, director of The Center  
for Sutton Movement Writing Inc., a non-profit educational  
organization founded in 1974 in California (USA). In 1988 this  
organization established The Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting®  
and developed the SignWriter® software, designed by Richard Gleaves,  
and has published a variety of teaching materials including books and  
a video series. In Spain SignWriting is referred to as  
SignoEscritura® and the software is referred to as SignoEscritor®.

  The lessons in this book are an amplification of the Primeras  
Lecciones de SignoEscritura, published (©1999) by the University of  
Alicante (Spain) by Irma María Muñoz Baell (University of Alicante)  
and Steve and Dianne Parkhurst  (PROEL and SIL International). The  
Parkhursts saw the need to complete the lessons (expanding the book  
from four lessons to 13), and in doing so they claim responsibility  
for any errors in this material.

  This English version is a translation of the materials produced in  
Spanish with sample signs and texts from Spanish Sign Language (LSE)-- 
and more particularly from the Madrid dialect. The purpose of the  
English version is to illustrate the teaching methodology. It is not  
meant to be used as a guide to learning LSE, nor is it expected that  
signers who do not know LSE will understand the signed texts. The  
examples used here are not intended to imply that they are the  
"correct signs." We recognize that there is great variation in how  
signers of LSE sign, and we encourage Deaf writers to express  
themselves freely in their own language without artificial rules as  
to which signs may or may not be used.

  Various people have helped in the development of this material. As  
mentioned above, Irma Muñoz translated (from English into Spanish)  
the majority of the Primeras Lecciones, which form the basis of the  
first half of this book. José Mari Reseco Parejo, Nolasco Marante and  
Roberto Benito (all Deaf) wrote most of the stories in this book and  
helped choose the LSE examples. Others that helped in the development  
of these materials include Valerie Sutton, inventor of SignWriting;  
Carlos Vázquez López, José Luis Fernández and María Jesús  
Carmona Alcalá of the Federación de Sordos de la Comunidad de  
Madrid; Gemma Piriz; Eva de Andrés Sanz; Chana Franchy, literacy  
specialist with SIL; and the nearly 300 people who gave input after  
taking the course at the Centro Prádez of the Confederación Nacional  
de Sordos de España (CNSE), the Federación de Sordos de Madrid, the  
Asociación de Sordos de Alcalá de Henares, among others, during the  
first three years that it has been taught in Spain (1998 - 2001).  
Many thanks to you all.

  


For more information about SignWriting or the the SignWriter  
software, write:

Deaf Action Committee for Sign Writingâ
P.O. Box 517
La Jolla, CA 92038-0517
USA

Tel: 1-858-456-0098
Fax: 1-858-456-0020
E-mail: DAC at SignWriting.org
Web: http://www.SignWriting.org


©2001

For more information about  SignWriting in Spain, write:

Steve and Dianne Parkhurst
c/ Miguel de Cervantes, 8
28890 Loeches (Madrid)

Tel./Fax: 34-91-886-7436
E-mail: steve-dianne_parkhurst at sil.org
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