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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Nov 25, 2001 9:48 pm Subject: Re: Is SignWriting Necessary? | |
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SignWriting List November 25, 2001 Hello James and Daphny! This is so great...thanks for sharing this with us...here is an example of a Deaf person fluent in one Sign Language (Nicaraguan), using SignWriting to learn another Sign Language (ASL)...that proves we can write different signed languages, based on writing body movement... Leigh...this is an example....as far as how we made that leap from body movement to signed languages...well...frankly I am not sure myself..We just tried it until we got something that works...over time...it was not done overnight...it was done through experience and truly dedicating our lives to the process... Val ;-) -------------------------- >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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