SW curriculum

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Barbara,

QSL is LSQ - same thing :-)

Andree,

I am very interested in how French Canadians see LSQ (QSL) as a
seperate language from ASL. Any research done on that? I am trying to
argue the same thing for NISL, that it is a different language from
BSL.

Shane


On 07/10/06, Barbara O'Dea <odeab at unm.edu> wrote:
>
>  Andree,
>
>  For clarification, would you mind responding to a couple of questions?
>
>  1. I know that ASL is used throughout Canada and both ASL and LSQ are used
> in Quebec. Would you tell us what QSL is and where it is used? Also,
> approximately what proportion of the Canadian Deaf community uses this
> language?
>
>  2. I am curious as to why you are proposing to introduce written QSL as a
> "first language" curriculum in the province of Ontario. What are you
> expecting to do with ASL, the existing predominant language of the Deaf
> community there?
>
>  3. You mentioned the Deaf school in Ottawa. Does the Deaf community in
> Ottawa use QSL?
>
>  I don't want to jump to conclusions and I''m sure I must have misunderstood
> something in your description because what I understand (or misunderstand)
> is akin to a group of educators in the hearing school system deciding the
> English-speaking community in Ontario should no longer use English and the
> students should be educated in some other language which is not generally
> used in the community, developing a curriculum for that language, and
> proposing it to the Ontario government.
>
>  I must be missing something and I sure would appreciate if you would give a
> further clarification of what you are proposing.
>
>  odeeodee
>
>
>
>
>  Andrée Gagnon wrote:
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>
> Dear SW members,
>
>
>
>       Because I feel that Val really ought to know who I am, what I do and
> why I wish to establish contact with the SW members, please find  below my
> message.
>
>
>
>       Firstly, I will introduce myself.  I am deafblind.  I attended the
> Deaf school in Québec city ( Canada) and I grew up in their dormitory.  I
> use Quebec Sign Language ( QSL). Since 1998, I am professor in the
> Department of Education at the University of Ottawa
>
>  ( Ottawa is the capital of Canada).  I have been teaching six different
> courses ( literacy and deafness: development of writing and reading for deaf
> students.  The students can obtain a certificate of deaf education in
> Ontario, Canada.
>
>
>
>      At the Deaf school in Ottawa, a project called " Fais-moi signe" ( in
> English, " Make me a sign") is being developed to be presented to the
> Ontario Ministery of Education for their approval.   I am preparing the QSL
> curriculum as the first language from kindergarten to grade 2 ( 2006-2007),
> from grade 3 to grade 8 (2007-2008) and from grade 9 to grade 12 (
> 2008-2009).  Upon approval of the project, the guide of QSL curriculum will
> be distributed to teachers of Deaf students in the province of Ontario.
>
>
>
>     And now I would like to learn more about SW curriculum.  Do you have a
> Sign Writing curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12 for deaf children, not
> adults?  To my knowledge I believe that only 2 teachers
>
>  ( Cecila Flood in USA, Stefan Worhenman in Germany and one researcher(Kegl
> in Nicaragua)   (another may be Brazil) have been teaching sign writing
> course to deaf children  since many years.  Also, I know that Juliette (
> France), Katheren ( Belgium) and others ( Germany- Swiss, and so on) have
> been teaching the Deaf children an introduction to SW  for a few years. What
> about the popular hearing trainers ( Val, Ingvil, Stefan)  and deaf trainers
> ( Therirry, Lucyna, Stuart) who give to hearing and deaf adults an
> introduction to SW.
>
>
>
>    While visiting the Centre of Total Communication in Danemark in 1998, I
> asked the hearing and deaf teachers if they were using the SW in the class
> in 1998 and the answer was no.
>
>
>
>    I already checked your SW book for adults and also found you have a few
> children books ( literature) for reading.  Do you have a strategic
> instrument to teach deaf children how to read and write SW?  As an example,
> French hearing children in grade 1 learn to form the regular plural of the
> nouns by adding an " s": chat-chats ( in English, cat-cats).  But, they
> cannot acquire the plural "aux"of nouns ending in "al"  in grade 1:
> cheval-chevaux ( in English ox-oxen).  It is only in grade 2  that the
> hearing children can acquire appropriately the plural " aux" of the nouns
> ending "al".
>
>     As the level of grades seems important for deaf children to acquire the
> symbol of rotation, my question is : should it be in grade 2 or in grade 3?
> As far as  I am conserned I do not know.
>
>
>
> Best regards
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> André Thibeault