UK Deaf leader argues for video technology

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 20, 2006

Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> We are working on it! :)  We have talked with the Superintendent.  
> We also had the President-to-be from Gally come for the Iowa  
> Association of the Deaf's 125th Anniversary Banquet. We also talked  
> with her about SignWriting. So we are pushing it everywhere we  
> can. :) We also tried to convince our local public school Deaf  
> Program to consider it.

Wonderful!!


>
> The challenge is that it is "one more program" in the midst of many  
> programs that are competing for their attention. I would like to  
> team up with the Alberquerque people and Cheri and others who I may  
> not know about to see if together we can create a presentation that  
> can be used by SW advocates to help convince public school  
> administrators, educators, etc. to be aware of SW and its benefits.  
> But like many ideas, we just need to achieve some critical mass  
> before it can happen. But I'm offering the idea :).

I think that is a great idea!

Such a presentation could arranged in 2007...maybe Spring 2007 one  
presentation could be arranged at a school for the Deaf, and if it  
goes well, others can be scheduled, perhaps at MSSD at Gallaudet...we  
could setup a presentation of teachers and Deaf educators who present  
to different schools...it would be fun and create some productive  
dialogue...

Val ;-)