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From:
Charles Butler Date: Sun Jun 3, 2001 8:07 pm Subject: FENEIS Conference - Porto Alegre Brasil | ||||||||
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PORTO ALEGRE -- Rio Grande de Sul - BRASIL June 1, 2001 - 4:30 PM FENEIS (Federa μί o Nacional de Educa μί o e Integra μί o dos Surdos) (the National Federation of Education and Integration of the Deaf) officially accepted Sign Writing (Lingua Escrita de Sinais) in the state-wide list of principles this weekend. As part of the annual FENEIS conference, part of the proceedings were to accept an extensive set of principles for training teachers of sign language and interpreters in Brasil. Because of the rich work that the SignNet project and particular Marianne Stumpf has been having here in Porto Alegre, the principles were changed by the three groups of which the body is made (the Deaf, Hearing Advocates, and Interpreters) to officially add Lingua Escrita de Sinais (Sign Writing) as part of the methodology for all teachers of sign language in Rio Grande de Sul to learn and be able to discuss with their students in the process of discussing the grammar, history, and morphology of Libras (Brasilian Sign Language). Representives of the Deaf Schools of Parana State will be taking this report back to Parana for use in their over 50 schools with Deaf students. This has taken Marianne and the ongoing group of trained SignWriters about 5 years to accomplish. Charles Butler (researcher from the United States, but also Brasilian) gave presentations on several joint projects, Charles on using SW for grammar lessons, and Marianne on why writing sign is so important in the long term for users of sign language. Other researchers from PUC (Pontificade Universidade Catolio) and ULBRA (Universidade Luterana do Brasil) also presented their experiences. Together Marianne and Charles the joint Libras/ASL dictionary project, and also discussed the possibility of developing Sign Shorthand into a usable everyday script. There are now groups using SW in research in Sao Paulo, Pelotas, Porto Alegre, and several other places in Brasil, and everyone is excited about having a dictionary in which their language is given the primary attention, with a systematized "alfabetization" using the SW system. Charles Butler, Beltsville, MD Proud Brasilian and friend of FENEIS (for more information, write Charles Butler at or go to the Brasil links from www.signwriting.org) | ||||||||
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