SignWriting in French-Belgium is now in school curriculums!

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

How exciting!
Also a symposium would be so cool!

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> March 13, 2013
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> Dear SignWriting List members -
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> Yesterday I was blessed with a visit, in my home, from Thierry Haesenne,
> from the Institut Libre Marie Haps, PROFILS, in Brussels, Belgium...
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> And we are also blessed with a houseguest this week from Ireland - Shane
> Gilchirst  - we are having a great time! Shane knows Thierry - they are
> here because of a big Deaf wedding that took place in Los Angeles last
> week, and now they are visiting friends in Southern California ;-)
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> Thierry could only stay a few hours yesterday, but he had the chance to
> tell me a little about how they are using SignWriting in French-Belgium now
> - they are not only continuing from their original work in the mid-2000s,
> but are expanding their work using SignWriting in school curriculums,
> thanks to teachers and researchers such as Thierry, Bruno Sonnemans and
> others.
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> So SignWriting is growing in French-Belgium - They are using the DELEGS
> software from Hamburg, Germany, as well as SignPuddle too!
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> I hope to write a more detailed report later, about specifics of their
> work in French-Belgium -
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> Congratulations and thank you Thierry, Bruno and everyone -
>
> I enjoyed our visit so much, and wish it could have been longer - I think
> we need a SignWriting Symposium in La Jolla, California!
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> Val ;-)
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-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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