Shane's SW progress in Belfast

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

trev,

thats your job! :-)

lots of capable people on your bigger island - we dont have that many
people here in ireland!!!

;-)

One possibility is that once we have the book translated into English
(if Stef and Brigit let us!), you could ask for the copy (with
stef/brig's permission) and that u can change the details re: BSL and
SW in BSL.

just a suggestion.

Shane

On 18/10/06, Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> <>< Re: deemed!
>
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