Background

Following on from the completion of Actions 20 and 21 in the British Sign Language National Plan (2017‑23) and publication of the British Sign Language Toolkit (2022), Education Scotland, the British Deaf Association (Scotland), Scotland’s National Centre for Languages (SCILT) and Deaf young people worked in partnership to develop this case study.

The case study provides insight on the experiences and challenges of four Deaf young people in Scotland while attending secondary school, college or university.  In particular it considered:

• experiences and challenges of attending school, college or university as a Deaf young person and what supported them to effectively engage and achieve;
• benefits of language learning (including British Sign Language);
• opportunities and benefits of having Deaf and hearing parents involved in the wider life of the school and engaged in their child’s learning.