Wirral Met College

1. Wirral Met College BSL Glossary Cate Cassidy

2. Involving Learners in Creating their own Support Resources BSL Glossary

3. The Learner • Kirsty • 22 years old • Profoundly Deaf British Sign Language user • Pre access humanities – psychology, sociology, English • Would like to become social worker for Deaf children

4. What we Did and How • Glossary from curriculum • Translation • Agreed signs • Filmed learner using Disgo video camera • Videos downloaded • Uploaded to pen drive

5. What Worked? • Kirsty was very keen • Opportunity to explore terms in BSL • Disgo easy to use • Portable • Upload easy • Easily accessible – pen drive

6. Difficulties • Adding captions • Agreeing signs • Name – word list • Battery time • Translation • Translation time

7. Snow • Tlapa - powder snow • Tlamo – large wet flakes • Kayi – drifting snow • Tliyel – snow marked by wolves • Tliyelin – snow marked by Inuit • Semtla – partially melted snow

8. Translation Process Not Psychology • Received information • Message decoded and transmitted in BSL

9. Psychology Translation • Received information – psychology • Decoded into English • Translated into BSL internally • Transmitted in BSL psychology externally Known as back translation

10. PSYCHOLOGY ENGLISH BSL BSL PSYCHOLOGY

11. Stress

12. Positives • Learner focussed • Learner fully involved in creating her video word list – personal dictionary • Tailored high level support • Uniformity of sign • Scope for further development • Promotes independence and autonomy

13. Learner Journey • Initial assessment • Teaching and learning • Independent study • Can be reviewed and amended • Personal study aid

14. Any Questions?