British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill – Cathie Craigie MSP: Summary of Consultation Responses

PDF – 10 pages

Scottish Parliament BSL Bill Consultation Summary

Original Consultation Document (BSL & English Text)

http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/info/?p=941

The Hub – Report on BSL:UPTAKE, the BSL Bill (Scotland) Consultation and other issues

Online version of TV programme with report on BSL:UPTAKE Cafe at Deaf Action and the consultation on a BSL Bill for Scotland. Plus other issues of interest to the Deaf community.

http://www.bslbt.co.uk/programmes/the-hub/

BSL Bill (Scotland) – Sign-Tube Interview with Cathie Craigie MSP, Convenor of the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Deafness

Interview in BSL through an interpreter. Please note: sound is quite faint, and the audio of Cathie Craigie’s speech is synchronised with the BSL/English interpreter, so slightly out of synch with Cathie Craigie.

Running Time 15 minutes 56 seconds.

http://www.sign-tube.com/video/1985/signtube-interviews-cathie-craigie-about-bsl-bill-scotland

Legal recognition of sign languages state by state (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_recognition_of_sign_languages

Legal Recognition of Sign Languages (Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias)

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1654236

Ethnologue Languages of the World – Language Family Trees: Deaf sign language

Information about 130 Sign languages

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=23-16

Council of Europe: The status of sign languages in Europe: Report drawn up by Ms Nina Timmermans, Consultant, in co-operation with the Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with disabilities (Council of Europe Publishing, 2005)

PDF – 168 pages

http://www.coe.int/t/e/social_cohesion/soc-sp/5720-0-ID2283-Langue%20signe_GB%20assemble.pdf

European Commission Multilingualism: EU Languages and Language policy: Europe: a continent of many sign languages

http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/languages-of-europe/doc189_en.htm

European Parliament Resolution on Sign Languages 1988 (reiterated 1998)

http://www.policy.hu/flora/ressign2.htm

European Union of the Deaf (EUD) Members (with information about national Sign languages)

http://www.eud.eu/EUD_Members-i-159.html