SignWriting History
 
 

 
SIGNWRITING INSTRUCTION MANUALS

1. SIGNWRITING: SIGN LANGUAGES ARE WRITTEN
LANGUAGES, MANUAL 1: SIGNWRITING BASICS
Author: Valerie Sutton
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-914336-49-5
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs9/
sw0821_SignWriting_Basics_Instruction_Manual_Sutton.pdf

2. SIGNWRITING: SIGN LANGUAGES ARE WRITTEN
LANGUAGES, MANUAL 2: SIGNWRITING HAND SYMBOLS
Authors: Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost
Publication Date: 2010-2014
ISBN: 978-0-914336-86-0
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs10/
sw0935_SignWriting_Hand_Symbols_ISWA2010_Sutton_Frost_2014.pdf

3. SIGNWRITING: SIGN LANGUAGES ARE WRITTEN
LANGUAGES, MANUAL 3: ASL HAND SYMBOLS
Authors: Adam Frost and Valerie Sutton
Publication Date: 2013-2014
ISBN: 978-0-914336-82-2
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs9/
sw0827_American_Sign_Language_Hand_Symbols_Frost_Sutton_2013.pdf

4. LESSONS IN SIGNWRITING TEXTBOOK
Author: Valerie Sutton
Publication Date: 1990-2014
ISBN: 978-0-914336-55-6
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf

5. SIGNWRITING ALPHABET MANUAL, ISWA 2010,
THE INTERNATIONAL SIGNWRITING ALPHABET
Author: Valerie Sutton
Publication Date: 2008-2011
ISBN: 978-0-914336-84-6
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/
sw0636_SignWriting_Alphabet_Manual_2010.pdf

6. LESSONS IN SIGNWRITING VIDEO SERIES MANUAL
MANUAL 1: INTRODUCTION TO SIGNWRITING
Manual Includes Transcript of English Voiceover for Video 1
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0009-Intro-SignWriting.pdf

7. LESSONS IN SIGNWRITING VIDEO SERIES MANUAL,
MANUAL 2: SIGNWRITING BASICS
Manual Includes Transcript of English Voiceover for Video 2
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0010-SignWriting-Basics.pdf

8. A CROSS-LINGUISTIC GUIDE TO SIGNWRITING,
A PHONETIC APPROACH
In English, with Spanish Sign Language examples.
Authors: Steve & Dianne Parkhurst

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/
sw0617_Cross_Linguistic_Guide_SignWriting_Parkhurst.pdf

9. SIGNOESCRITURA: UN SISTEMA COMPLETO PARA
ESCRIBIR Y LEER LAS LENGUAS DE SIGNOS
In Spanish, with Spanish Sign Language examples
Authors: Steve and Dianne Parkhurst

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs5/
sw0494-SignoEscritura-Parkhurst-ES-LSE.pdf

10. SIGNWRITING: A COMPLETE SYSTEM FOR
WRITING AND READING SIGNED LANGUAGE
English Translation of SIGNOESCRITURA Textbook
Authors: Steve and Dianne Parkhurst

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs5/
sw0493-SWLessonsBook-Parkhurst-EngLSE.pdf

11. HANDBUCH ZUR GEBAERDENSCHRIFT
(SIGNWRITING HANDBOOK)
In German, with German Sign Language examples
Author: Stefan Wöhrmann, Publisher: Birgit Jacobsen

https://www.suttonshop.com/ecommerce/pages/products_sw_detail.jsp?id=54.0
https://www.astrid-krueger-medizin.de/buchbe/gebaerden.htm
https://www.kestner.de/n/verlag/produkte/gschrift/gschrift-einfuehrung.htm

12. DAS GEBAERDENBUCH 1, 2
(GERMAN SIGN LANGUAGE BOOK)
with SignWriting illustrations, Books 1 and 2
Author Birgit Jacobsen,
German signs written in SignWriting by Stefan Woehrmann

https://www.suttonshop.com/ecommerce/pages/products_sw_detail.jsp?id=53.0
https://www.suttonshop.com/ecommerce/pages/products_sw_detail.jsp?id=56.0

13. LIÇÕES SOBRE O SIGNWRITING
Translation of Valerie Sutton's Lessons in SignWriting Textbook
into Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS)
by Dr. Marianne Stumpf,
with additional lessons in writing LIBRAS by Marianne Stumpf

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs5/sw0472-BR-Licoes-SignWriting.pdf

14. TEGNSKRIFT: INNFØRING I TEGNSKRIFT
Author: Professor Dr. Ingvild Roald,
Vestlandet Kompetansesenter, Bergen

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/
docs4/sw0304-NO-TegnSkrift-Laerebok-06.pdf

15. KURS I TEGNSKRIFT
(SELF-STUDY GUIDE FOR LEARNING SIGNWRITING)
Author: Professor Dr. Ingvild Roald,
Vestlandet Kompetansesenter, Bergen

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/
docs6/sw0514-NO-TEGNSKRIFT-Selvinstruerende.pdf

16. LEÇONS EN SIGNWRITING 2002: LIRE ET ÉCRIRE LES
MOUVEMENTS DES LANGUES DES SIGNES
Traduction des leçons de SignWriting en français,
by Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod, French-Switzerland

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0221-Lecons-SW-Francais-1.pdf
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0222-Lecons-SW-Francais-2.pdf
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0223-Lecons-SW-Francais-3.pdf
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0224-Lecons-SW-Francais-4.pdf
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs4/sw0301-CHfr-lecons-internet-1-15.pdf
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs4/sw0302-CHfr-lecons-internet-16-30.pdf

17. WRITING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR,
LESSON 1: WRTING TOPIC MARKERS
Author: Dr. Karen van Hoek, with ASL by George Butch Zein
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0011-ASL-Grammar-01.pdf

18. WRITING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR
LESSON 2: WRITING RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ASL
Author: Dr. Karen van Hoek, with ASL by George Butch Zein
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0012-ASL-Grammar-02.pdf

19. WRITING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
CLASSIFIERS AT SALK INSTITUTE
Authors: Darline Clark Gunsauls & Kevin Clark
https://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0013-Salk-Institute-SW.pdf

 


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