The Deaf Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary Team from FENEIS-SP

The Sao Paulo Chapter of the Brazilian
Deaf Federation for the Education and Integration of the Deaf

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SignWriting In Brazil

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The Brazilian Sign Language
Encyclopedic-Dictionary

published at the
University of Sao Paulo

Editors: Dr. Fernando Capovilla
& Walkiria Duarte Raphael


Published Articles

"Dicionario de lingua brasileira de sinais"
Instituto Nacional de Educacao de Surdos
June 99, number 11, pages 84-88

"Dicionario de sinais sai este ano"
published in the Journal da USP...April 1999

"Para Ler e Sentir"
Journal of the Sao Paulo State Research Foundation
The Noticias da FAPESP, July 1999 issue!

Email messages
posted on the SignWriting List

about the Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary

SignNet Project
founded
November 1999


Developing
SignWriting
software,
dictionaries,
textbooks & literature
in LIBRAS.
Director:
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa

SignNet Email:
signet@pucrs.br

SignNet Web Site

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Participating Groups

Grupo ESIN/UCPel
Universidade Catolica de Pelotas
Escola de Informatica
Photo above: Four members of the SignNet Project: left to right:
Gisele Rangel (deaf), Marianne Stumpf (deaf), Maria Cristina Pereira (hearing) and Fabiano Souto (deaf).
Grupo PUCRS
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Facultade de Informatica FACIN/PUCRS e Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia (MCT)
Grupo Concordia/ULBRA
Universidade Luterana do Brasil
Escola Especial Concordia, Porto Alegre

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Brazilian SignWriting Software
...different computer programs under development...

 

SWML
SignWriting Markup Language

SWML, or the SignWriting Markup Language, is the work of Dr. Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, professor of Computer Science at the Universidade Católica de Pelotas in southern Brazil.



SignDic
Computer Program
(under development)

Will create bilingual
dictionaries in SignWriting

Computer Programmer:
Daniela Remião de Macedo

SignInf
Adapting Information Technology
For Deaf Education

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SignWriting
Literature & Journals


Uma Menina Chamada Kauana

A Little Girl Called Kauana
Marianne Stumpf, January 1997

Complete Story Online!

The SignWriting Journal

Editor-In-Chief
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa
 

1. Internet Broadcast from Porto Alegre, 1997
Photos from the online SignWriting workshop...

Photo right: Deaf teacher Marianne Stumpf presenting SignWriting during an internet broadcast in March, 1997. Marianne taught SignWriting at the Escola Especial Concordia in Porto Alegre.


2. Um capítulo da história do SignWriting
History of SignWriting in Brazilian Portuguese


3. SignWriting in Brazil, 1996-1997

Early reports posted on the SignWritingSite...

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History of SignWriting in Brazil

 

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