SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM ONLINE 2016
ON GOOGLE HANGOUTS & YOUTUBE
July 18-21, 2016 - Three Sessions Daily

DAY 1
JULY 18, 2016
SESSION 1
15:00 - 16:00 GMT UTC
17:00 - 18:00 German Time
PRESENTATION 53
"A Home & Education For Deaf Children
in Sicuani, Cusco, Peru"
AUTHOR
Kristina Tworek
"Young Talent Grant"
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: PERU & GERMANY
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Education
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DAY 1
JULY 18, 2016
SESSION 2:
16:30 - 17:30 GMT UTC
12:30 - 13:30 US Eastern Time
PRESENTATION 54
“SignTyp: a cross linguistic database
and dictionaries for sign languages”
AUTHOR
Rachel Channon, Ph.D
Department of Linguistics
University of Connecticut (UCONN)
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: USA
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Research
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DAY 1
JULY 18, 2016
SESSION 3:
18:00 - 19:00 GMT UTC
13:00 - 14:00 US Central Time
PRESENTATION 55
“Organizing Principles of SignPuddle”
AUTHOR
Steve Slevinski
Software Developer
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: USA
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Software
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DAY 2
JULY 19, 2016
SESSION 1
15:00 - 16:00 GMT UTC
16:00 - 17:00 Tunisian Time
PRESENTATION 56
"SignWriting in Tunisian Deaf Education”
AUTHORS
Wafa Laajili
Tunisian Sign Language Instructor
and
Mohamed Ali Balti
SignWriting Instructor at
Ibn Charaf University in Tunisia
LANGUAGE: English & Arabic
COUNTRY: TUNISIA
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Education
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DAY 2
JULY 19, 2016
SESSION 2:
16:30 - 17:30 GMT UTC
13:30-14:30 Brazilian Time
PRESENTATION 57
"A Web Tool for Building Parallel Corpora
of Spoken and Sign Languages"
AUTHOR:
Alex Malmann Becker
Engenheiro de Software
UNIPAMPA
Universidade Federal do Pampa
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
COUNTRY: BRAZIL
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Software
Fabio Kepler?
Sara Candeias?
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DAY 2
JULY 19, 2016
SESSION 3:
18:00 - 19:00 GMT UTC
19:00-20:00 Portugal Time
PRESENTATION 58
Dissertação de doutorado:
"O SignWriting como um sistema de escrita apropriado às línguas gestuais. Um
contributo para o desenvolvimento de competências de escrita do aluno Surdo?
Doctoral dissertation:
"SignWriting as an appropriate writing system for sign languages. A
contribution to the development of the Deaf student's writing skills?
AUTHOR
Jorge Manuel Ferreira Pinto
UTC de Educação Especial
Escola Superior de Educação do Politécnico do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 602, 4200-465 Porto
PORTUGAL
LANGUAGE: Portuguese Sign Language (LGP)
Interpreted into Portuguese Spoken Language
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Education
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DAY 3
JULY 20, 2016
SESSION 1:
15:00 - 16:00 GMT UTC
12:00-13:00 Brazilian Time
PRESENTATION 59
"A difusão do SignWriting no Estado do Maranhão:
uma proposta curricular numa escola bilíngue da cidade de Imperatriz";
"The spread of SignWriting in Maranhão state:
a curricular proposal in a bilingual school in the city of Imperatriz"
AUTHORS
Flávia de Almeida
Especialista em LIBRAS
Licenciada em Pedagogia
Imperatriz-MA, BRASIL
José Ribeiro da Silva Júnior
Dr. H. c. mult.
Especialista em LIBRAS
Licenciado em Pedagogia
Imperatriz-MA, BRASIL
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
COUNTRY: BRAZIL
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Education
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DAY 3
JULY 20, 2016
SESSION 2:
16:30 - 17:30 GMT UTC
13:30-14:30 Brazilian Time
PRESENTATION 60
"The Learning of SignWriting at
ANPACIN Bilingual School for Deafs in Maringá - PR, Brazil"
AUTHOR
Daniele Miki Fujikawa Bózoli
LANGUAGE: English & Portuguese
COUNTRY: BRAZIL
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Education
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DAY 3
JULY 20, 2016
SESSION 3:
18:00 - 19:00 GMT UTC
15:00-16:00 Brazilian Time
PRESENTATION 61
"Gestografia: The new term to translate
'SignWriting' in Portuguese"
AUTHOR
Daniele Miki Fujikawa Bózoli
LANGUAGE: English & Portuguese
COUNTRY: BRAZIL
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Research
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DAY 4
JULY 21, 2016
SESSION 1:
15:00 - 16:00 GMT UTC
10:00-11:00 US Central Time
PRESENTATION 62
“SignPuddle 3: Front & Back”
AUTHOR
Steve Slevinski
Software Developer
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: USA
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Software
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DAY 4
JULY 21, 2016
SESSION 2:
16:30 - 17:30 GMT UTC
11:30-12:30 Peruvian Time
PRESENTATION 63
"Using SignWriting for the
Peruvian Sign Language (LSP) Dictionary"
AUTHOR
Miguel Rodríguez Mondoñedo
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
San Miguel, Lima 32, Perú
LANGUAGE: English, Spanish & Peruvian Sign Language
COUNTRY: PERU
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Research
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DAY 4
JULY 21, 2016
SESSION 3:
18:00 - 19:00 GMT UTC
11:00-12:00 Pacific Time
PRESENTATION 64
"SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects”
Wikipedias in American Sign Language
and Tunisian Sign Language
AUTHORS
Valerie Sutton
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with the Sign Language Wikipedia Team:
Adam Frost, Jason Nesmith, Holly Sharer & Mohamed Ali Balti
LANGUAGE: English & ASL
COUNTRY: USA
CATEGORY: SignWriting in Literature
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