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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Nov 5, 1998 6:19 am Subject: Re: a "proper" suggestion | |
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>James, I wonder if sets of rubber stamps of SW symbols would be useful to >your kids. > >I haven't got any idea how they are made or by who or at what cost.... But >it would eliminate some of the problems of production. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ben Karlin >Staff Interpreter for the Deaf, St Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center >5300 W Arsenal St, St Louis, MO 63139-1494 >Phone 314 644-8270 V/TTY | Fax 314 644-8115 __________________________ First of all, I am really impressed and amazed that so much has been accomplished in Nicaragua. If all of you knew the poverty and problems these people have, and yet the school in Bluefields has accomplished so much...it is really an heroic story. I would like to summarize all of this and update our web site on Nicaragua in the future. But in regards to the rubber stamps, Ben, the cost of production would be prohibitive. I know from experience. I have manufactured all kinds of odd things to help us write in the past. Before personal computers existed, I manufactured mylar templates, which cost a great deal to produce. I also designed five special transfer sheets to rub down wax symbols on paper - the symbols were SignWriting symbols. But nothing was as good as the ink pen, when we wrote our 20 page newspapers by hand. All this was before the personal computer was invented. You can read about the transfer sheets on this page: 1981-1984 SignWriter Newspaper Native Signers Begin Writing https://www.SignWriting.org/hist005.html To make rubber stamps for any signed language would be very costly, because a mold has to be made, before you manufacture the stamps, and you would have to have thousands of stamps to really be able to write complete sentences. So my conclusion is that writing by hand, or typing by computer are the two choices that make the most sense. And some of the Nicaraguan students are learning our MS-DOS program well. Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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