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Closed 26/03/2017
Weʼve raised £570 to fund BSL courses for EdUniSignLangSociety and DeafAction!
- Funded on Sunday, 26th March 2017
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Our society has been teaching BSL for over 10 years.
We send 20 members of the society (randomly selected from a pool of dedicated members) with the objective of gaining and sharing BSL knowledge with our society and wider community. The course includes teaching of BSL vocabulary, handshapes, visual aspects of the language and sentence structure, as well as gaining experience communicating at a conversational level. Conversational practice with a Deaf person is the most effective way to learn the language, as well as exposing our members to Deaf culture and issues in the Deaf community. That is why we have chosen to send our members to a Deaf led charity, as we aim to facilitate understanding and educate about BSL and Deaf culture simultaneously.
By equipping our members with an accredited qualification, accredited qualification, providing a forum for practice and skill development and ensuring contact and interaction with the Deaf community, our society will be better placed to continue our work of spreading the language to the wider community. Having SQA qualified members improves the standard of BSL that we are teaching, and ensures our knowledge is kept up to date. The society as a whole can thereby use this knowledge to continue our important outreach program to schools, Scout/Guide groups and other societies of the university such as our Medical Sign education group.
Katy, Fundraising Secretary
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fraser haran
Mar 20, 2017
Good luck
£50.00
M55 People
Mar 4, 2017
Good luck with the rest of your fundraising!
£100.00
Lesley Malcolm
Mar 4, 2017
Great cause and good luck with the rest of the fund raising!
£100.00
Emma McKinlay
Feb 28, 2017
£25.00
Irene Taylor
Feb 19, 2017
£10.00
Curly hair
Feb 19, 2017
£30.00
John, Yvonne and Ailsa
Feb 15, 2017
Ellie we will need to see the silent evidence. Well done!
£20.00
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Katy Donnelly
EdUniSignLangSoc are part-funding places on an accredited SQA BSL course for our members, working with Edinburgh charity DeafAction to promote BSL education and Deaf awareness! Our members use this knowledge to spread BSL to the rest of the Society and throughout the community