Promoting better rights for deaf signers living in Scotland via opportunities, democracy and ScotsSL education. #ProtectScottishSignLanguage #AyeSign #ScotsSL
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It can be notoriously difficult to educate the general public on signed languages, let alone Scottish Sign Language. Few linguists have done a good job of doing that by undergoing meticulous research. They are also open to feedback, it’s always a work in progress.
Readers, can you spot the problem with the Anglocentric BBC? You can even see that they’re under the influence of Palpatine, orchestrating that British Muscular Unionism ten-year strategy plan. You’d have thought a soft ally might have refocused the BBC broadcaster, but no!
Strong Braidwoodian vibes there from their defenders, insisting that he wasn’t a fundamentalist oralist at heart! 😂
Oh aye, Mary Hare is a signing school where they have numerous deaf signing teachers! To the best of our knowledge, they’ve only had one deaf P.E. teacher.
It’s really lazy thinking to cite 5-10% as a low watermark, because you should be arguing for Early Sign Language Acquisition, with high expectations from parents, etc. You even get deaf siblings without deaf parents developing good sign language skills, etc. They’re the anchor.
Aye, you cannot escape elitism, it’s impossible. But you’ve got to hope that the small elite will look after its people. With them in England and here in Scotland, the elite is largely educated at Mary Hare, so it’s not always about high-quality signing: polsci.institute/understandi…
It’s interesting to read a recent pushback against the idea of Thomas Braidwood being a fundamentalist oralist. You’ve got mainly Mary Hare educated people defending Thomas Braidwood and pointing to the likes of late-deafened people historically. Even Signs@HWU got a mention.
Interesting, it seems that Annelies Kusters is suggesting hearing, non-signing historians will have a better insight into what really happened, whilst arguably refuting Harlan Lane’s version of it. Harlan Lane was a hearing late signer, but hey ho.
That’s a guid one, 110%. It’s a damning indication of the likes of Signs@HWU arguing for regionalism or Manchesterism, it is OUTDATED. “It always seems to be England, unfortunately! I completely agree, it would be lovely to see these programmes cover the whole of the UK. Wales…”
Aye, it’s like f———- hell man. You’re supposed to be a Scottish university, but you were shocked to see certain academics not being as smart as we initially thought: researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/i…
(They described Scotland as a region.)
