Polish 'sign-Writing' book.

The first Polish ‘sign writing’ for the deaf handbook has been published in Poland, which was first developed by a ballet dancer in the 1970s.

The iconic system of a pictographic recording of the sign language, first developed by US ballet dancer Valerie Sutton, has now been adapted to the needs of the Polish hearing-impaired community, says Jakub Józefiak, the mastermind behind the publication.“In the book’s layout, you first see an entry in Polish, followed by a notation in the sign language, accompanied by the iconic image in sign writing,” he tells Polish Radio.“We created the handbook jointly with a group of teachers of the hearing-impaired. The publication has undergone a peer review and is now ready for release.”The sign writing alphabet, which features hand gestures rendering the iconic imagery of the letters, is a welcomed innovation to the Polish repertoire of sign language.

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