World SW teaching to deaf school

[Valerie Sutton]

Hello Juliette -
Congratulations on all you have accomplished!

SignWriting is taught in schools in the USA (New Mexico, Georgia), in  
French-Belgium, Flanders, Germany, Nicaragua, Brazil...and others...

I wish you all the best of luck with your presentation on Friday!

To get more information on SignWriting in schools, I would suggest,  
go to this web page...

Who Uses SignWriting
http://www.SignWriting.org/about/who

And visit the web pages for USA, Belgium, Germany, Nicaragua and  
Brazil...

Plus...

SignWriting Teacher's Forum
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/

Thank you for your report from France, Juliette -

Val ;-)


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On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Juliette Dalle wrote:

> Dear Valerie and List
>
> This friday 19th, I will go to Paris for Final Report of SW  
> experience in deaf classrooms to Toulouse (Sign Language school).  
> The project groups :
> - LSF teachers (and me as "SW teacher specialist")
> - Linguistics
> - Technology search (computer)
> - Technology diffusion (www.websourd.org)
>
> The linguistic group and my colleagues wish to know its : (could  
> you reply to my questions ? It will be very great to compety the  
> geography of SW education in the world)
>
> - SW is it teaching in deaf school ? If yes, which school and who  
> teacher ?
> - Since when ?
> - How ?
> - For what ? (supporting the Sign Language, or Writting language  
> etc...)
> - what do you think about the experience with deaf children ?
>
> Other new : I finished to work in elementary school with SW last  
> year. This year, I work to Middle School with Deaf children and I  
> am too LSF teacher for Hearing Children. Of course, I use the SW in  
> my classrooms !
>
> Hoping to receive very soon your replies before thursday 18th...
>
> Take care
>
> Juliette
>
>