SignWriting in Canadian School

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September 1, 2009

Hello Andre!

THANK YOU for this excellent report about SignWriting in Canada...I am  
really impressed and happy to see the work you are doing with  
SignWriting...and the ongoing work with curriculum in LSQ (Quebec Sign  
Language)...

If more reading materials in American Sign Language (ASL) would ever  
be useful, I can send you some of our new publications printed for the  
students...such as Snow White in ASL, portions of the Bible in ASL,  
and Cat in the Hat in ASL...these books are printed from the PDF  
documents that are also available on the web, so you could download  
them anytime...but when they are printed and bound, they look better  
and become a real book for students to read...

I wish we could do the same for you, in Quebec Sign Language. If you  
have a videotape of storytelling, we could someday transcribe it for  
you, if that would help -

Anyway, if you want the books in ASL, I can send you some copies.  
Write to me to give me the address where I should send them and  
perhaps in late September or October I can ship you some -

Val ;-)

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On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:

> Hi Val and everyone,
>
>
>
>      You know that during two years, 11 Deaf students have been  
> studying a SW course from Monday to Friday for 30 minutes (30  
> minutes x 5 days). One Deaf teacher is a difficulty to teach a SW  
> course because there is a lack of LSQ reading and writing materials  
> or resources.  Do not forget that the Deaf teacher has been teaching  
> French, Math, science and SW courses.  She is easy to prepare  
> French, Math and Science because there is a plenty of these  
> materials. However, she is a hard time to prepare a SW course since  
> she does not have a time,
>
>
>
>
>         This year, the Centre Jules Léger (school in Ontario,  
> Canada) accepts to offer a new LSQ course to Deaf students because  
> one Deaf teacher and I have been developing the document of LSQ  
> curriculum from kindergarten junior to grade 12th with the Ontario  
> Ministry of Education.  This LSQ curriculum has 3 parts: Sign  
> communication, SW reading and SW writing.  One Deaf teacher decides  
> to teach "sometimes" (not everyday) SW reading and writing and to  
> teach mostly a sign communication because she doesn't have SW  
> reading and writing materials now.
>
>
>
>      I am trying to work on developing a SW writing (handwriting).   
> It is very obvious not to be standard a written SW now. I mean that  
> I create my own style of a written SW.  Then, I will give the  
> document of a written SW to one Deaf teacher who will teach how to  
> handwrite a SW to Deaf students.
>
>
>
>      Hand waving
>
>
>
>     André
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "SignWriting" <signwriting at mac.com>
> To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Cc: "Gagnon et Thibeault" <atg at videotron.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:11 AM
> Subject: SignWriting in Canadian School
>
>
> SignWriting List
> August 18, 2009
>
> Hello Andre!
> Great to receive a message from you...How are you?
>
> And how is the SignWriting project in Canada going? Is it continuing
> at the school this new school year?
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ----------
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:
>
>> Hi Ingvild and everyone,
>>
>>    Yes, you are right.  The sign FINALLY with "pah" mouth in no way  
>> relates to the spoken word "finally". It was created simply to   
>> convey message in ASL non manual marker or signal.
>>
>>    Hand waving
>>
>>    André
>





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