Scotland – The Long and Winding Road – a Roadmap to British Sign Language & Linguistic Access in Scotland- Extracts (BSL & Linguistic Access Working Group, 2009)

BSL & text

http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/?p=671

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)

Deaf voters ‘unheard’ by politicians (BBC Online/The Scotsman)

Article by Tessa Padden on BBC Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/scotland/8640584.stm

Article by Tessa Padden in The Scotsman newspaper

http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Tessa-Padden-Politicians-must-learn.6268080.jp

Inequalities in access to healthcare faced by women who are deaf: J. Ubido MSc , J. Huntington Stage 3 Sign Language, D. Warburton City & Guilds 7307 (Health & Social Care in the Community Volume 10 Issue 4, Pages 247 – 253) Published Online: 27 Jun 2002

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118958211/abstract

Cultural and Linguistic Barriers to Mental Health Service Access: The Deaf Consumer’s Perspective: Annie G. Steinberg, M.D., Vicki Joy Sullivan, M.A., and Ruth C. Loew, Ph.D.(The American Journal of Psychiatry 155:982-984, July 1998)

PDF

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/155/7/982

Scottish Government National Conversation Event with Deaf People

Video Clips from National Conversation Event for Deaf People with Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister,  Glasgow, Tuesday 24 November 2009, organised by SCoD

BSL version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2NFW2t1WXs

Subtitled version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmfumHYdl4

National Conversation Website: www.anationalconversation.com

The Uphill Struggle: services for Deaf and hard of hearing people—issues of equality,participation and access: Jennifer Harris & Claire Bamford (Disability & Society, Vol. 16, No. 7, 2001)

PDF

http://www.idris.ac.uk/book/Social%20Inclusion/Uphill%20struggle.pdf

Islington Council Deaf Portal (BSL)

http://www.islington.gov.uk/Accessibility/deaf/default.asp

Result! – A BSL Guide to Democracy (Scottish Council on Deafness, Access to Democracy Project)

BSL

http://www.scod.org.uk/a2d/index.html

Access to Democracy Project (Scottish Council on Deafness)

Web page – BSL & text

http://www.scod.org.uk/Access_to_democracy-i-150.html