Research Papers & Publications

SSC Research Briefings

• SSC Research Briefing 1: Telling it like it is (pdf)

SSC Papers

• Telling it Like it is Report 2019
• The Qualification of Teachers of pupils with visual impairment, or pupils with hearing impairment or pupils with multi-sensory impairment (vision and hearing impairment) by John Ravenscroft and Kerri Wazny, 2016.
  This survey was conducted for the Scottish Government by the "Qualification of Teachers of Pupils with Sensory Impairment" Short Life Working Group
• Review of assistive technology and environmental aids to pupils with a sensory impairment in Scotland, Research Report 2012
• Assessing the feasibility of using digitised British Sign Language examination papers for deaf candidates in Scotland, Research Report 2012
  - Biology Intermediate sample paper (pdf)
  - Chemistry Intermediate sample paper (pdf)
  - Biology Credit sample paper (pdf)
  
• Post-school transitions of young people with hearing impairments
• The Education of Children and Young People with a Sensory Impairment in Scotland, Research Report 2012
• Scottish Standards for Deaf Children (0-3): Families and Professionals Working together to improve services, 2011
• Linguistic Access to Education for Deaf Pupils and Students in Scotland, 2009

Associate's Papers

• Dr John Ravenscroft, Depute Head of School & Senior Lecturer, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh and SSC Co-ordinator
  Special Interest: Education of children with visual impairments
• Dr Nadia Northway, Lecturer in Vision Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
  Special interest: Visual processing, Dyslexia, Eye movements
• Dr Margaret Woodhouse, School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
  Special interest: Assessment of vision in children with learning disabilities
• Dr Andrew Blaikie, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Queen Margaret Hospital
  Special interest: Paediatric ophthalmology, cerebral visual impairment
• Dr Alison Eardley, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster
  Special interest: Imagination, Imagery, Spatial mental representation in Blind people
• Dr Joao Roe, Sensory Support Service & University of Birmingham
  Special Interest: Social and emotional inclusion of children with visual impairments and Braille literacy
• Dr Paula Sterkenburg, Faculty of Psychology & Education, VU University, Amsterdam
  Special Interest: Attachment in the care for persons with visual and intellectual disabilities
• Rachel O'Neill, Lecturer in Deaf Education, University of Edinburgh
  Special interest: BSL Glossary, Deaf education history, Language assessment
  • Telling it Like it is Report and Research Briefing
  • Report from the Achievement and Opportunities for Deaf Students in the United Kingdom: from Research to Practice project
• Dr Emily Nordmann, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen (Deaf Education)
  Special interest: Mathematics & deaf children
• Prof Terezinha Nunes, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Oxford
  Special interest: Mathematics, literacy & deaf children
• Prof Gary Morgan, DCAL (Deafness Cognition And Language) Research Centre & City University London
  Special Interest: Sign Language studies
• Dr Laurent Galbrun, Assistant Professor in Acoustics in the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University
  Special interests: Building Acoustics, Speech Intelligibility Indoors
• Dr Emmanouela Terlektsi, Post Doctoral Researcher, Oxford Brookes University
  Special Interests: Deaf children's imagination and literacy; children's and young people's social emotional development, safeguarding deaf and hearing children; child development
• FIESTA Network Facilitating Inclusive Education and Supporting the Transition Agenda, European Project