Lilian Keddie Lawson, OBE, o bu one Scott umu asusu di iche iche nakwa onye nkwuchite. Nti chiri ya bia burukwa onye na eji British Sign Language.

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A mụrụ ya na Fife n'ezinụlọ na-anụ ihe. E zigara ya na Donaldson's School for the Deaf na Edinburgh, tupu ọ gaa Mary Hare Grammar School, [1] ebe ọ gosipụtara nkà nhazi ya mgbe ọ banyere n'ọtụtụ òtù na ọrụ. O nwere mmasị na sayensị ma mụọ zoology na Mahadum Edinburgh na 1970s. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, Mary Brennan, onye n'oge ahụ na-ebute ụzọ na nyocha na British Sign Language na Moray House na Edinburgh, kpọtụrụ ya. Ya na Brennan bipụtara nchọpụta dị egwu nke nyere BSL ọnọdụ nke asụsụ.[2][3]

Ọ rụrụ ọrụ maka British Deaf Association dị ka onye nchịkwa ruo afọ iri na otu. Ọ bụ oge ọrụ na-arụsi ọrụ ike maka Association. A họpụtara di ya, Jock Young, na 1985 dị ka onye isi oche mbụ ntị chiri nke Association. N'oge ọ nọ n'ọkwa, e bipụtara British Sign Language Dictionary, Princess Diana bụkwa Onye Nlekọta nke njikọ ahụ. [4]

N'afọ 1992, Lawson laghachiri Scotland ịrụ ọrụ na ngalaba Scottish nke Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), ọkwá ọ nọrọ ruo n'afọ 2000, mgbe ọ ghọrọ onye nduzi nke Scottish Association for the Deaf, mgbe ahụ a gbanwere aha ya na Scottish Council on Deafness (SCoD), ọrụ ọ nwere ruo ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ afọ 14.[5]

Na 2005 New Year Honours Lawson a họpụtara OBE "N'ihi ọrụ ndị ntị chiri", ma bụrụ onye ntị chiri mbụ na Scotland natara nsọpụrụ a. [6]

Ọrụ mkpọsa ya bụ isi ihe n'inweta nkwado iwu maka BSL na Scotland ma mee ka a nabata BSL Scottish Bill na 2015. [7][8]

N'afọ 2016, Mahadum Heriot Watt nyere ya nzere doctorate nke Letters maka ọrụ ya n'ọhịa nyocha na Asụsụ Ogbi nke Britain dị ka onye na-eme mkpọsa na ndị ntị chiri. [9] [10][11] N'otu afọ ahụ, BDA nyekwara ya onyinye Francis Maginn, iji kwado ọrụ ya maka ndị ntị chiri. [12]

  1. Mary Hare History - Firsts. Mary Hare Grammar School.
  2. Brennan (1984). Words in hand : a structural analysis of the signs of British sign language, [2nd], Edinburgh: Edinburgh BSL Research Project. ISBN 0950975001. 
  3. See Hear. BBC See Hear. Retrieved on 17 January 2021.
  4. The history of BSL in Scotland. BSL Scotland Act 2015.
  5. History of DeafScotland. Deafscotland. Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved on 2024-06-03.
  6. "Deaf community champions celebrated at RAD 175th birthday honour award", Royal Association for Deaf people.
  7. Close Up 1: Lilian Lawson. BSL Zone.
  8. "SCoD NEWS", Scottish Centre of the Deaf.
  9. "BDA Congratulates Lilian Lawson OBE on her Honorary Doctorate", British Deaf Association, 19 November 2016. Retrieved on 14 January 2021.
  10. "Congratulations to our November Graduates 2016!", Heriot Watt University, 18 November 2016.
  11. "Honorary degree for Dr Lilian Lawson", Milngavie Herald, 13 January 2017. Retrieved on 17 February 2021. (in en)
  12. "Building our legacy for the future", Deaf News, 1 April 2016.