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"Judy A. Kegl" Date: Sun Nov 25, 2001 8:26 pm Subject: Re: Is SignWriting Necessary? | ||||||||
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Since Daphny, our 17 year old Nicaraguan Deaf student, is residing with us for a few months, we were able to enroll her as a visiting student at the Maine state school for Deaf (Baxter). Daphny's native language is Nicaraguan Sign Language, plus she has a smattering of spanish vocabulary, so learning ASL has been quite a task for her. Of course, the students at Baxter are taught english, and to facilitate this, all were given lists of english verbs and adjectives alongside pictograms of their ASL glosses. For Daphny, descriptions of english words through ASL is not very helpful, but with the SW computer I very quickly printed out each term in Nicaraguan Sign Language via SW. (Our Nicaraguan Sign Language dictionary file includes some 2000 signs -- a mere drop in the bucket given the immensity of the lexicon, but enough to cover all the english terms in the school's hand-out.) Once again, SW proves decisive in bridging language gaps. -- James | ||||||||
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