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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Aug 16, 1999 10:40 pm Subject: Re: How many signers in the world? | |
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>Hi Valerie, > >I thought the 2% refered to the percent of Deaf people, not the percent that >actually sign. In many countries with low income and strong family ties and >social classes many of the Deaf do not interact with other Deaf people and >therefore don't learn a sign language. > >Russell Johnson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Russell and Everyone - I just completed my meeting with one of the board members of the Parker Foundation here in San Diego. The meeting went very well. They helped fund a portion of the programming of SignWriter 5.0 this summer, and they are interested in the future of SignWriting. I wrote a 22 page report and in the beginning I had a write-up using some statistics, but I "softened" those statistics, and said that generally, anyone who uses a signed language can benefit from using SignWriting, whether they be Deaf or hearing. As you say above, not all Deaf people sign, but a lot do, and hearing people do too - so it still might me 2% that sign...just not all of them Deaf... Val :-) _____________________________________________________________ Valerie Sutton SignWriting List SignWriting Web Site SignWriting List Archives https://www.SignWriting.org https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting...Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization...Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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