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| Dr. James Woodward (Woody) has been the driving force behind sign language linguistics in Asia for more than twenty-five years. He has set up programs in Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Now he directs the Nippon Foundation's linguist training at CUHK in Hong Kong. | |
| After his presentation, Woody talked with Herve Roqueplan, and Tommie Sarchet outside the lecture hall. |  |
| One of the deaf researchers trained by Woody Woodward is Rafael Domingo who is one of the core group of linguists in the Philippines. |  |
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One of the advantage of conferences is running into old friends. Barbara DaCosta and Charlie Dittmeier have known each other for more than twenty years from the days when Charlie was going regularly to Singapore to work with the deaf group there. |
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Most of the conference was held at the linguistics building at Chinese University but on the second day we walked to the Run Run Shaw Theater on campus for a different kind of presentation. |
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At the Run Run Shaw Theater, the St. John the Baptist Primary School offered an excellent dramatic presentation of their experience of welcoming deaf students to their school to create what is known as the "co-enrolment model" of deaf education. |