The SignWriting Literacy Project For Deaf Students
An Innovative New Way of Teaching Signing Deaf People To Read & Write
Our Mission
Improving literacy levels of the born-deaf.
Thanks to the ingenious and innovative SignWriting technology children and adults all over the world who were once illiterate are now learning how to read and write. The SignWriting Literacy project is changing lives.
To find out how we are accomplishing this please see the articles below:
Employment for Signing Deaf Adults
Skilled signers from the Deaf Community are hired to:
- Learn to read and write Sign Languages in SignWriting
- Write and preserve Sign Language literature that is originally composed in Sign Language by Deaf authors
SignWriting Goals for 2008
Goal: To write Sign Language Literature for Deaf Communities in six categories, published in book form and available on the web:
- School Textbooks & Reference Books
- Children's Literature
- Religious Literature
- Deaf Author's Literature
Sign Language
It has been proven through research that both Deaf and Hearing Children learn language faster if they use Sign Language at an early age. And even hearing adults benefit from learning how to sign in so many ways.
SignWriting provides the "written form" for any Sign Language. Sign Languages are becoming "written languages" because of SignWriting.
SignWriting Literature Project
It is hard to imagine not having textbooks and written literature in your own language, and add onto that burden, imagine not being able to hear ANY language!
Signwriting Software
1. We are working on SignWriting software that will make it possible to create the first Wikipedia written in American Sign Language.
Why is this important? An online encyclopedia in American Sign Language can lead to improved literacy for Deaf people on the web, and inspire them to write their own encyclopedia articles in American Sign Language.
Non-Profit Organization
The SignWriting Literature Project is founded by, and sponsored by, the Center for Sutton Movement Writing, a 501c3 educational non-profit organization located in La Jolla, California. The Center was founded by SignWriting inventor Valerie Sutton in 1974, receiving California tax-exempt status in 1976 & Federal exemption in 1978.
