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sminta Date: Fri Nov 12, 1999 1:19 am Subject: Re: New SW Article in Silent News!! | |
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Send my congrats to Cecilia as well. I sent the information to my daughter's sign language teacher and told her to check out your web site. She was interested but I don't know if she has done it yet. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: Valerie Sutton To: Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 8:15 PM Subject: Re: New SW Article in Silent News!! > >The credit goes to you Valerie. Hope this helps with the grant you are > >trying to get. > > > >Susan > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Thanks, Susan...I have no idea if it will help with Qualcomm, but it might > help with other grants I am writing now....so in the long run all publicity > helps - that is for sure! > > The Qualcomm grant was turned in yesterday before I found the article > waiting for me in the post office...The wonderful letters of support really > made the proposal look so much stronger. Everyone's letters are very > valuable, and the more the better. I am continually writing small grant > requests now. > > This article in Silent News could not have been written without the > contributions of Cecilia Flood and her students in Albuquerque, New Mexico. > I called Cecilia last night and we talked about the article. I told Cecilia > what an important role she is playing...her research is the first of its > kind in the United States. In other words, we have had studies in other > countries, such as Nicaragua and Denmark - but none in the USA until now. > So it is nice to know that my own countrymen are testing it now. > > And Cecilia and I also discussed that the reason it could happen now, was > partly because I started to donate materials. Strange, when the USA > actually is a rich country...but the red tape, paper work and lack of > funding for experimental projects puts teachers who want to try something > new in a very hard position. So donating has helped the project happen > faster, and I am glad I am doing that for the schools. > > And I want to thank Cecilia for her hard work - there has been a great deal > of stress related to the project for several reasons, and the interview for > Silent News was just added on top of everything else...but it certainly is > wonderful...and I have some other good news about the NAD that will help > the project further, from a video perspective, in the year 2000.... > |
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