This report is the result of a research project that explored the experiences of deaf students in Higher Education in Scotland. The authors detail current access provisions, and determine the extent to which deaf students have full access to Higher Education. They take a principled approach, noting that issues facing deaf students in Higher Education are best understood and addressed through a framework that foregrounds the linguistic rights that all deaf students (including those who use English and those who use British Sign Language) have to access; rights that are expressed in recent policy developments. Current challenges to policy, and issues in funding and practice are addressed in this report, and it concludes with a full list of recommendations that cohere around the central notion of linguistic access rights.
The research was based on extensive interviews with deaf students, sector service providers and stakeholders, and included a comprehensive review of policy and practice in Scotland. It was carried out in 2002–2003 by a team of researchers in Moray House
School of Education at the University of Edinburgh.
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