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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Feb 6, 2000 2:25 pm Subject: Re: Gallaudet University & SignWriting... | |
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>I'm not at Gallaudet, so don't know nothin' about what's happening inside, >but the rep from the Gallaudet booth that my wife talked to at the World >Deaf Federation Congress this summer had a very strong negative reaction to >it. He thought it was ridiculous. >Mark Penner >Tokyo, Japan ----------------------------------------- SignWriting List February 6, 2000 Hi all - In regards to Gallaudet, there are also people who like SignWriting there too....I know because they have ordered books and videos....and they have written to me to tell me. And I know that several, like Cecelia Smith, felt frustrated by other people's attitudes. So Gallaudet is not "one person"...it is many people with many different opinions... In 1984, when I taught a short workshop on SignWriting at Gallaudet, I was really surprised...I had no idea that Gallaudet had so many different theories side by side on the same campus. To give you an example, at that time they had a lab just for Cued Speech. The inventor of Cued Speech was at Gallaudet.... Now, do you think that other people on the Gallaudet Campus supported the idea of Cued Speech? - not at all! I asked around and found everyone I talked to on campus was against Cued Speech, even though it was on campus. At the same time there was also a group of teachers on campus working with SEE signs, and there was also an ASL movement...so what struck me was how diverse the campus is, with many philosophies existing side by side, and at the same time...everybody on campus disagreed with each other and were close to fanatic about their own points of view. That was just my impression back in 1984.... Val ;-) |
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