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Denise Larkin Date: Tue May 8, 2001 6:08 pm Subject: Re: SignWriting and Deaf culture | ||||||||||||
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Greetings, Thank you all for your wonderful input. It's nice to know that I am not alone in my struggles. Sometimes I think people come up with negative comments about SW because they do not want to learn anything new. I would like to apologize if I gave anyone the impression that I was trashing Goldilocks. I really like Goldilocks. It is people from different countries that have problems with it, and I was just trying to get ideas on how to make everyone happy. I have already started creating stories and my son is going to help me illustrate them. James and Judy - I am so impressed by your book. I was wondering if I could buy a copy of it. I would like to present it at our unofficial International Deaf Conference. I really need to prove to other countries that other countries are writing stories in SW. (gee that sounded redundant). About the conference: I am still calling it unofficial because we have not been given permission to go public with it yet. I do not know the dates other than it is supposed to be in December in Sierra Vista, Arizona. We are right next to the Mexican border and hope that people from Mexico and the surrounding areas will come. The emphasis is on bilingualism. Ruth Kartchner is the mastermind behind this conference and has asked me to present SignWriting. If anyone has written any SW stories that I could use at this conference, I would love to get with you and purchase a copy. I am obsessed with SW and I do not hesitate to talk about it, give classes, or lecture on it. During the course of this semester, I have given 5 classes, lectures on SW. One of my Deaf friends is exploring the possibility of putting me on TV in Phoenix to present SW. Thank you Angus on your email listing about literacy and culture. You were able to say what I could not. I really hope that by creating stories about other cultures I can bring new countries into the SW group. Thanks again for all the help, and again I would like to apologize if I sounded like I was negative about SW in any way. I love it and am very excited about it !!! Sincerely, Denise | ||||||||||||
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