Shane's SW progress in Belfast

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmai...:

Wow. What a great day. My only quibble is that Stefan's book needs
translating into English with BSL. ;-)

> Everyone,
>
> Today I was teaching Northern Ireland Sign Language to primary school
> kids (not deaf) aged 9 to 11 - for today's exercises, I used some
> sample pages from Val's Goldilocks (level one) as there's a lot of ASL
> signs in Northern Ireland Sign Language which is great - and some from
> Stef's excellent workbook/thingy.
>
> They picked it up very well - they have enjoyed drawing, working out
> and actually signing to themselves which is great - they have started
> to realise that NISL is a language, not a system of gestures - they
> realised that NISL is as good as Irish or English (it is a
> Irish-speaking school) which is wonderful.
>
> I will try and develop the NISL sw workbook using me experiences and
> everyone's expertise/experience on the SW list :-)
>
> Ingvild: im a lot more confident with my SW - thanks to you! :-)
>
> Shane
>
> Stef: thank you for your brilliantly-done book - we ll want it to
> translated into English with NISL & ISL!!!
>

Regards, Trevor

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