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

Canada – Political candidates shouldn’t pay for accessibility: report (The Canadian Press, Tuesday, July 20, 2010)

News report

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/20/ont-human-rights.html

Related article: Scandal of 100,000 deaf people pushed to margins of public life (Tristan Stewart-Robertson, The Scotsman, 31 May 2010)

British Sign Language (BSL) (Scotland) Bill: Public Consultation (July-October 2010) – BSL and English text

Member’s Foreword from Cathie Craigie MSP

Background

Position in other countries

Comparison with Finland

The current position

How can Deaf people have fair and equitable access to all aspects of life in Scotland?

Areas for consideration

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Responding to this Consultation

Scandal of 100,000 deaf people pushed to margins of public life (Tristan Stewart-Robertson, The Scotsman, 31 May 2010)

News article

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Scandal-of-100000-deaf-people.6329710.jp

Jeff McWhinney: Politics must create a level playing field for the deaf community (Extract only – full article by subscription)

http://www.scotsman.com/education/Jeff-McWhinney-Politics-must-create.6329678.jp

Related article: Canada – Political candidates shouldn’t pay for accessibility: report (The Canadian Press, Tuesday, July 20, 2010)

European Parliament – Paid Traineeships for people with disabilities (including Deaf people)

Details of how Deaf and disabled people can apply for a 5-month paid traineeship (work experience) at the European Parliament in Brussels, Luxembourg or at Information Offices in member states.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?id=147&pageRank=4&language=EN

You Neutral? – ASL Video with subtitles

You Neutral? – ASL video with subtitles – why political involvement is important for D/deaf people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3y-3hkHfoA

Citizenship and the Deaf Community (Dr Steven D Emery, 2006/2008)

Extracts in BSL & English – Coming shortly

Sign Language Studies – journal publishing a wide range of original scholarly articles and essays relevant to signed languages and signing communities.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sign_language_studies/

Paddy Ladd – Excerpts of presentation on Deafhood Part I (National Technical institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute for Technology, 2004)

Video – American Sign Language – Links to more extracts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExpDalJJDY

UNDERSTANDING DEAF CULTURE: In Search of Deafhood, Paddy Ladd (Multilingual Matters, 2003) – generous extracts

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pr649oNCaSMC&dq=Deafhood+Paddy+Ladd&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=cffvSp2xFqGrjAer24W9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false