Deaf in the Story – Visual Stories of an Invisible People (BSL:UPTAKE and Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2011)

BSL Blog by Tessa Padden on Deaf/Sign Language Storytelling
With English transcript

http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/2011/deaf-in-the-story-–-visual-stories-of-an-invisible-people-2/

Storytelling as a Family Activity: Stanley Robertson interviewed by Barbara McDermitt and Virginia Blankenhorn in 1979 (BSL Translation from Interview in Tocher, School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh)

BSL translation by Frankie McLean, 2011
Transcript of spoken Scots/English dialogue
Link to Audio
http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/2011/the-old-woman-who-sold-her-soul-to-the-devil/

The Old Woman Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil: Traditional joke/story by Stanley Robertson (BSL translation from story in Tocher, School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh)

BSL translation by Frankie McLean, 2011
Transcript of Scots narration
Link to Audio
http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/2011/the-old-woman-who-sold-her-soul-to-the-devil-2/

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/

British Sign Language Receptive Skills Test (From: Tobias Haug: “Review of Sign Language Assessment Instruments”, an earlier version of that paper 2005. revised in cooperation with Ros Herman, 2009) This assessment measures comprehension of BSL grammar in children aged 3-13 years

HTML, with BSL video examples

http://www.signlang-assessment.info/index.php/british-sign-language-receptive-skills-test.html

The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity: David P. Vinson, Kearsy Cormier, Tanya Denmark, Adam Schembri, and Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London (Behavior Research Methods 2008, 40 (4), 1079-1087)

PDF – 9 pages

http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/40/4/1079.full.pdf+html

Aphasia in a user of British Sign Language: Dissociation between sign and gesture: Jane Marshall; Jo Atkinson; Elaine Smulovitch; Alice Thacker; Bencie Woll (City University, London, UK; St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK) (Cognitive Neuropsychology, Volume 21, Issue 5 July 2004 , pages 537 – 554)

Abstract. Full Text to Purchase

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/795382157-490182/content~db=all~content=a713819159

Assessing BSL Development: Production Test: Herman, R., Grove, N., Holmes, S., Morgan, G., Sutherland, H. & Woll, B. (City University Publication 2004) – Second in a series of language assessments in BSL, produced by the Sign Language & Deaf Studies research team at City University, London. The BSL Production Test is intended to complement the BSL Receptive Skills Test by looking at children’s signed output.

http://www.signlang-assessment.info/index.php/assessing-bsl-development-production-test-narrative-skills.html

Categorical Perception of Face Actions: Their Role in Sign Language and in Communicative Facial Displays: Ruth Campbell, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London; Bencie Woll, Department of Clinical Communication Sciences, City University, London; Philip J. Benson, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford; Simon B. Wallace, MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London (THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1999, 52A (1), 67-95)

Full text PDF – 29 pages

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy317/personal/files/papers/p67_s.pdf

Children are just lingual: the development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL): Gary Morgan, City University, London (Lingua, 2006)

PDF – 43 pages

http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/g.morgan/BSL%20phonology%20lingua.pdf