All signed languages lack of a written expression though new technologies are allowing the deaf to communicate in written form. This has a peculiar expression close to the linguistic structure of the signed language. Charrow conducted some research in 1974 that spoke of Deaf English but not much is available.
Adam, Thank you for your answer. I'll look into it. BTW, right now at Paraguay an organized group of deaf persons are trying to develop their own written version of Paraguayan Sign Language. Maybe someone ata Gallaudet could be interested in approaching them. Thanks again!
Melgar and others, there 's a sign language writing system created by me, supported by Brazilian deaf community, as my PhD research in 2008. The system is called ELiS (Escrita das Línguas de Sinais, that means Sign Language Writing). Although it's very young, we've achieved interesting results in using it. It's been used at Universidade Federal de Goiás, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso e Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, as a curricular subject and also at some schools where Brazilian sign language (Libras) is taught. We've been working on the translation of Brazilian literature for children, and our most recent project is the translation of a Brazilian sign language dicitionary, with over 10,000 entries. We're also working on a translator to run in Android phones, a simple one, just word to word.
You could check about ELiS here: http://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/91819
Hope I've helped.
And Adam, if Gallaudet is interested in a sign language writing system, please, get in touch.
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