| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
May 4, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: SW Flashcards
Thank you, Ben, for your interesting message below...I think it is admirable that you are trying to learn SignWriting alone without a teacher. We all learned how to read and write English after years and years of training in school, with plenty of teachers, so it just takes time....and perhaps it also takes some flashcards!!
Which brings up why I am writing. I would like to respond to all of your requests for flashcards...but I will need your help...
I just posted a "sample flashcard" on our SignWriting Web Site. Go to:
SignWriting
Flashcards
What do you think? Do you feel that style of flashcard will be
useful? If not, what other kind of style would you prefer? I
could post more of them, and then you could print them out from
the web for free, or....I could offer 25 cards for sale. If they
sell, then I could increase the number.
But...I do need your feedback...so please write back to tell
me if you like that style of flashcard.
Looking forward to hearing from all of you - and if you want the list to read your message - remember to say "post to list" in your message :-)
Many thanks!
Valerie
DAC@SignWriting.org
>Hello all,
>I work with a small population of chronic mentally ill in-patient
deaf.
>Because of their many problems they tend to be:
>A Illiterate in English
>B Impoverished in their Sign vocabulary (and cut off from
the vitality
>of their language in use in a community)
>C Impoverished in their conversation
>D Undependable in making cognitive connections across Sign-English.
>I have been trying to learn SW for a year now (you're
right, not trying
>consistently or trying hard; otherwise I'd have made a lot
more
>progress) to give these clients ways to build the cross-language
>bridges, journal, expand their own vocabulary of standard
signs. For
>myself it would allow me to document their use of language,
write
>scripts for videotaped presentation of frozen texts (like
client rights
>postings, etc.) and standardize presentation of information
for each of
>the clients.
>I've had a hard time getting started because when I review
what I have
>learned of SW it is all so easy, when I go to write or read,
it is all
>so hard. I've followed the flashcard discussion very closely
because it
>would help me, and give me a basis to start work with the
clients. I am
>motivated, but "the flesh is weak."
>I found a box of already printed flashcards: Basic Signing
Vocabulary
>Cards Set A and B; 100 Signs with Words per set, published
by Garlic
>Press, 100 Hillview Lane, #2, Eugene, OR USA 97401, copyright
1990. My
>sets cost US$5.95 but that was years ago. The sets are geared
towards
>Signed English and perpetuate the correlation of A Sign=A
Word, at least
>I am not reinventing the wheel. I figure that by using the
set with my
>SW Online Dictionary I can go through the entire set in no
time at all
>and end up with somewhere around 150 signs in Pictures and
English
>Glosses (already on the cards) matched with SW "words".
>Will let you know how it goes in helping ME to learn,
then helping the
>clients to learn.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ben Karlin <KARLIB@mail.dmh.state.mo.us>
>Staff Interpreter for the Deaf, St Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Center
>H007B, 5300 W Arsenal St, St Louis, MO 63139-1494
> 314 644-8270 V/TTY 314 644-8115 FAX
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