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SignWriting List March 13, 2013 Hello Everyone - Not only is SignWriting more established in French-Belgium now, but recently I received this email from Kathleen Heylen, a teacher of SignWriting from Flemish-Belgium - Kathleen gave me permission to post her message below: On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Kathleen Heylen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hallo Valerie, > > first of all... Happy Birthday!! (sorry, few days late ;) > > I was in Holland this weekend. I gave them the basic start lesson to learn SignWriting. They were very motivated. > They also had questions. I've told them, if they really want to move ahead they can always contact you. > > They wanted to know about software for SignWriting (not online). > And when you want to use SignMaker, they would find it easy to put the curser on a symbol and be able to read what the symbol means. > > I promised them I would ask you ;) > > You see SignWriting is moving up in the world ;) > > kind regards from Belgium! > Kathleen ------------------------- On Mar 13, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > SignWriting List > March 13, 2013 > > Dear SignWriting List members - > > Yesterday I was blessed with a visit, in my home, from Thierry Haesenne, from the Institut Libre Marie Haps, PROFILS, in Brussels, Belgium... > > And we are also blessed with a houseguest this week from Ireland - Shane Gilchirst - we are having a great time! Shane knows Thierry - they are here because of a big Deaf wedding that took place in Los Angeles last week, and now they are visiting friends in Southern California ;-) > > Thierry could only stay a few hours yesterday, but he had the chance to tell me a little about how they are using SignWriting in French-Belgium now - they are not only continuing from their original work in the mid-2000s, but are expanding their work using SignWriting in school curriculums, thanks to teachers and researchers such as Thierry, Bruno Sonnemans and others. > > So SignWriting is growing in French-Belgium - They are using the DELEGS software from Hamburg, Germany, as well as SignPuddle too! > > I hope to write a more detailed report later, about specifics of their work in French-Belgium - > > Congratulations and thank you Thierry, Bruno and everyone - > > I enjoyed our visit so much, and wish it could have been longer - I think we need a SignWriting Symposium in La Jolla, California! > > > Val ;-) > > > > > > > > > > Valerie Sutton > [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting > Read & Write Sign Languages > http://www.SignWriting.org > > SignPuddle Online > Write SignWriting in the Clouds! > Documents, Dictionaries, SignMail > http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle > > ASL Wikipedia Project > Articles in American Sign Language > http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org > > SignWriting List > Technical Support: Ask questions... > http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist > > SignWriting Literature Project > Writing Literature in Sign Languages > http://www.SignWriting.org/literature > > SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects > Encyclopedias in Sign Languages > http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia > > SignWriting Sponsors Forum > Help Educational Non-Profit > http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/sponsors > > SignWriting Shop > Books, DVDs, Lessons, Services > http://www.SignWriting.org/shop > > Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting > Center For Sutton Movement Writing > a US educational nonprofit organization > PO Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA > Tel: 858-456-0098 Skype: valeriesutton > > SignWriting on Twitter > http://twitter.com/signwriting > https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia > > SignWriting on YouTube > http://youtube.com/signwriting > > SignWriting on Facebook > http://facebook.com/SignWriting >