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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu May 13, 1999 3:26 pm Subject: Welcome New Italian Members! | |
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May 13, 1999 I would like to welcome a team of Italian researchers who have just joined the SignWriting List. Six new members have been added, and we of course would all love to learn about your research with writing Italian Sign Language! So please write to introduce yourselves :-) Years ago, Marco Consolati, from Torino, Italy, helped me create the Italian version of the SignWriter Computer Program. I know that his group used SignWriter for awhile. He apparently translated one of the SignWriter manuals into Italian, but I have never seen the manual. So I hope we can contact Marco for a copy - not only do I hope it will benefit the research in Rome, but I would like to see it myself!! Here is some historic background about SignWriting in Italy: Marco and Maddalena Consolati, from the Cooperativa DIRE in Torino, Italy, began working with SignWriter in 1991. In 1992, the SignWriter computer program was distributed to approximately 30 signers in Italy. A research group consisting of teachers of the Deaf, linguists and interpreters, worked on creating an Italian Sign Language dictionary in the computer. Group members included Marco & Maddalena Consolati, and others from the Cooperativa DIRE organization. Announcements were made about SignWriting to the Italian Deaf Community through their newsletter "SBALORDIRE" and on RAI Televideo (Italian National TV Network). We do have a web page about SignWriting in Italy, but it needs to be updated: SignWriting In Italy https://www.SignWriting.org/sw107.html I believe we can contact Marco at this email address: Marco Consolati Cooperativa D.I.R.E. In May, 1996, Marco Consolati linked our SignWriting Web Site, www.SignWriting.org, to the following: Italian Area Sordi https://www.mclink.it/mclink/sordi/pub.htm Cooperativa DIRE https://www.arpnet.it/~dire Associazione Documenta https://www.arpnet.it/~docum I don't think Marco even knows about the SignWriting List! So perhaps it is time for me to write to him...it will be great to be in touch again! 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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