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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun May 9, 1999 12:20 am Subject: Re: Questions Learn To Read ASL | |
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Deborah Holden wrote: >Dear Valerie, > Thank you for your great response. It was very helpful. It's nice to >know >if our ASL is not prefect, it is OK. You said "if they read enough, in >time it >will sink in" I was thinking the same thing. Also I went to the web page, and >your explanation of "What quote" helped a lot. I was wondering what that >meant. I just told the students that "Quote" means title. Thanks again >for all >your help. >Deborah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 8, 1999 Hi Deborah and Everyone - Thanks for these thoughts...and they stimulated more thoughts! I know a lot of you are new to the SignWriting List, and you may not know all the details behind the development of SignWriting. For example, SignWriting was not developed to write ASL - it was developed to write any signed language because it is based on writing body movement in general. The first signed language recorded in SignWriting was Danish Sign Language, not ASL. But the books you will be receiving through the SW Literacy Project are in ASL - that is true. And we are not standing in judgement of someone else's ASL - not at all! My goodness - that is the last thing I would do! I am not a teacher of ASL, nor am I an interpreter. I am a hearing person, and although I can communicate with my Deaf friends, my signing is far from perfect. That is why I feel it is so important that the "Learn To Read ASL" lessons on the web are "transcribed from an ASL video". In other words, it is Darline Clark-Gunsuals who signed the ASL and who teaches ASL. I was just the "scribe".... So when I explained what I thought "What quote" meant - that was based on what I personally have witnessed through transcribing the stories -so that was just the "scribe" talking! I bet "real" ASL teachers could explain it better than I could! My "real job" is to teach you the SignWriting symbols themselves. Then your Deaf students can "apply" those symbols as they choose. Of course, I hope that you and your students will learn some ASL through Darline's beautiful signing...she did such a beautiful job on the video. I love watching her sign the stories, and I know your students will too :-) ....so please know that I am not an ASL expert myself... Just wanted to share some of these thoughts with you.... Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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