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SignWriting in Denmark
Danish Books & Articles & Software

SignWriting in Denmark

Above: Copenhagen, 1982. Valerie Sutton, left, teaches SignWriting
to Deaf educators. Britta Hansen, director of the Deaf's Center for Total Communication, is interpreting right.




 
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Research Project
At The Deaf School
At Randersgade, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 1985



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"UNDERVISNING I
TEGNSKRIFT/TEGNSPROG -
forsøsprojekt på Døveskolen
i Randersgade" 1985

Published by:
Copenhagen's School System Research Department
Kobenhavns kommunale
Skolevaesen
Forsogsafdelingen
ISBN: 87-7346-145-8

 
 
   
30 Danish Signs in SignWriting

"THIRTY (30) SIGNS
FROM DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE"
published 1985

in Copenhagen,
Denmark


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"30 TEGN FRA
DØVES TEGNSPROG
"

Danish signs
written in SignWriting

Published by:
Døves Center for Total
Kommunikation, 1985
ISBN: 87-981812-4-6

 
 
   
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Guide to the
Video Instruction
Program, in Danish
& Danish Sign
Language,
transcribed in
SignWriting
from Video, 1986



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"Vejledning til
videoundervisnings-
programmet
"
Døves Tegnsprog,
Grammatik I, 1986

Published by:
Døves Center for Total
Kommunikation, 1986
ISBN: 87-981812-6-2

   
   
Articles
   
Politiken 1982 Newspaper Article
published in Denmark
in 1982 about
Danish Deaf educators
learning SignWriting.

Politiken, Sept 1982


"Døve lærer at skrive
tegnsprog med
taendstikmænd"

"Deaf learn to write
sign language with
stick figures"
   
 
   
Berlingske Tidende Article

Newspaper Article
published in Denmark
in 1982 about
SignWriting.

Berlingske Tidende,
Sept 1982


"Bournonville giver
døve eget
skriftsprog "

"Bournonville gives
the deaf their own
written language"

 

 

 

About SignWriting in Denmark

SignWriting was first developed by Valerie Sutton, an American, at the University of Copenhagen in 1974-1975, on a research project conducted by Lars von der Lieth.

From 1975-1982, Valerie lived and worked in her homeland, the United States, developing and improving SignWriting, with the advice and assistance of native ASL signers.

Even so, it was still Denmark that became the first country to adopt SignWriting offcially. The system has been used in Deaf education and research in the Danish school system since 1982.

Britta Hansen, 1982 director of the Deaf Center For Total Communication (KC) in Copenhagen, was the first to support SignWriting for Deaf education. The Danish Deaf Center continues to use SignWriting to this day, in a variety of ways.

 

Other articles about
SignWriting in Denmark...

Om Tegnsprogskrift 1
Article by Danish Deaf Father

Om Tegnsprogskrift 2
Comments from
a Danish Deaf student, age 13

Research Project At The Deaf School
At Randersgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985


Software

TegnBank
Danish Computer Program For SignWriting

Linguist Karen Albertsen and her colleagues at the Deaf Center For Total Communication in Copenhagen, designed their own computer program on the Macintosh, using SignWriting. Called TegnBank, which means "SignBank" in Danish, the program is a linguistic data base for dictionaries of signs. Karen and others have been building a large Danish Sign Language dictionary in SignWriting in the computer.

For more information about SignWriting in the Danish school system, the TegnBank Computer Program, or the extensive list of SignWriting publications produced in Denmark, please contact:

The Deaf Center For Total Communication
Kastelsvej 58-A
2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark
(45) 31-42-38-28 voice
Contact Persons:
Britta Hansen, Director
Karen Albertsen, Sign Writing Research

Other Software:

SignWriter DOS Software:
Danish Fingerspelling Keyboard


SignPuddle Online for Denmark



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