A move to roll out British Sign Language (BSL) as a language option in South Lanarkshire schools has been hailed a "significant milestone" by Scotland's first deaf councillor.
At the local authority's Equal Opportunities Forum on June 14, it was announced that Calderside Academy in Blantyre would pilot BSL as a language option this August when the schools return from their summer break.
The announcement comes after East Kilbride Councillor Grant Ferguson, the first ever deaf BSL user to be elected in Scotland, presented a motion ‘BSL in Education’ to South Lanarkshire’s Equal Opportunities Forum where chairman Councillor Mo Razzaq and members agreed to investigate this with education resources officers.
