At Heriot-Watt, the course involves intensive BSL training as students may or may not have experience of sign language at the beginning. Much like a modern language degree, the third year is spent ...

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support.

Police Scotland, supported by Heriot-Watt University, has created a series of British Sign Language (BSL) videos aimed at the deaf community affected by domestic abuse. The series, comprising 13 ...

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain “effectively invisible” due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support.

SCOTLAND is setting the agenda for sign language provision internationally thanks to new graduates from the country's first degree course on the subject. More than a dozen new sign language ...

A grant of £1.2 million to create an innovative computerised collection of language recordings of British Sign Language (BSL) has been awarded by the ESRC to the University of Bristol, University ...

Interpreters and translators form a large part of everyday life for Deaf people in interaction with hearing communities. The effects of this on how they are perceived by others and in turn how Deaf ...

The course is Scotland's first degree qualification in British Sign Language Heriot Watt University has launched the first degree course in Scotland in British Sign Language. There has been a lack of ...

At Heriot-Watt, the course involves intensive BSL training as students may or may not have experience of sign language at the beginning. Much like a modern language degree, the third year is spent ...