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Description
SignWriting Literacy Project |
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Deaf
student Danny
is reading from the computer screen with the help
of teacher Cecilia Flood, who is conducting research
on the effectiveness of the SignWriting Literacy
Project, at the University of New Mexico. |
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SignWriter 5.0
Right now, Deaf People &
Teachers In 17 Countries
Use SignWriter 4.4 in MS-DOS
Some Deaf people use SignWriter
daily and depend upon it.
They are all waiting anxiously
for SignWriter 5.0!
1. SignWriter 4.4 in MS-DOS was programmed in
two old programming languages: Microsoft Pascal and
Assembly Language.
2.
SignWriter 5.0 is being written as a Java application,
the new, flexible programming language fitting today's
technology. It will be a "cross-platform"
program.
3.
The source code from SignWriter 4.4 in MS-DOS
could not be transferred automatically to Java. The
majority of the source code has to be re-written.
4.
So ten years of work developing SignWriter 4.4
in MS-DOS now has to be improved in Java. Old files,
typed with SignWriter 4.4, need to "convert"
into the new SignWriter 5.0 format. Dictionaries are
complex in SignWriter and must convert too.
5.
New features are being built into SignWriter
5.0, such as a new Multi-Lingual User Interface, and
typing down the page in vertical columns. |
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.....Donate
To Deaf Literacy....
The National
Association of Police and Lay Charities, a 501c3
non-profit organization, helps children feel safer, by providing
teddy bears and other services, while the police are taking
care of the children. Dubbed as the "TeddyBear Cops",
the NAPLC receives funding from vehicle donations.
In
2004, your donation of a car, auto, vehicle, truck, van, motorcycle
or boat will help deaf children too!
So please donate your vehicle to the Police and Lay Charities.
The proceeds will help fund our SignWriting
Literacy Project for Deaf Children. THANK YOU!
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