User:Slevinski

Welcome to my world of SignPuddle.

I excelled in math when I was young, completing 3 years of math in 4 months. I received the highest grade possible in college level Calculus in 9th grade. Attended Union College for math in 10th. Received a BS in Mathematics from Grove City College in '94.

I fell in love with literacy through the book "How to Read a Book", the Syntopicon, and the Greet Books of Western Civilization from Britanica.

I have used sign language since my first kid was one and a half years old. I still remember his first sign, pointer finger tapping open palm. We called it "more".

Several years later I began a friendship with Deaf, Coda, and their friends through my wife's work. She became proficient in sign language through immersion. She still dreams in sign. I somehow found SignWriting.

I know the difference between a spoken language and a signed language. It changes the brain. I will always have a hearing accent, but hope my writing is acceptable.

I've collaborated with Valerie Sutton for 7+ years. Together we've standardized the encoding model for SignWriting Block Printing that was first conceived almost 30 years ago. Before the computer model, between 1981 and 1984, there was rapid development of the script and the publishing framework. This history was a collaboration with Valerie Sutton, the Deaf, Richard Gleaves, and many others.

I brought formal mathematics to this rich history of SignWriting Block Printing. The work on this site is a standardization and extension of decades of script development and evolution.

I am working on an infrastructure for the Internet user and the offline user, so that the use of SignWriting is open and free. The infrastructure of the online SignWriting community is 50% complete. Please check the SignPuddle Status for the current number. -Steve Slevinski (talk) 11:35, 13 October 2012 (EDT)