We are delighted to announce that DCAL, University College London, has 4 new research posts available. Two positions focus on reading development in deaf children aged 4-7 and 8-11 years, exploring the relationship between BSL, English, and reading development. The application deadline for these posts is 29th May. The other two positions are for Post-Doctoral Research Fellows examining how BSL and English are processed in the brain of deaf children using OPMs and deaf adults using fMRI. The application deadline for these posts is 9th June. For more information, please visit the DCAL website. Please spread the word and get in touch if you have questions.

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5/15/2024

Recorded Dec 2023. This event has BSL interpretation and captions. Ahmad from UCL Student's Union's presentation will focus on expanding the student-led E&I work beyond the SU and developing societies' involvement in making our campus more inclusive. Helen and Tor from Eugenics Legacy Education Projects (ELEP) reflect on the role of higher education, especially UCL, in confronting and addressing eugenics ideologies. Tigmanshu from Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub focuses on innovation and disability, and explores how the GDI Hub are working towards elegant solutions to disability problems.

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12/13/2023

Explore this unique opportunity to join UCL's prestigious Division of Psychology and Language Sciences as a Research Assistant. Engage in a Wellcome-funded, three-year project led by Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney, focusing on the role of visual communication skills in reading development among young deaf children. This fixed-term role offers a chance to register for a PhD at UCL. Knowledge of British Sign Language (BSL) is a requirement.

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7/19/2023

Language, whether spoken or signed, is arguably Homo sapiens’ greatest achievement. Although most children seemingly acquire language without effort, for others the acquisition task is more challenging. In this lecture, Chloë Marshall will argue that studying these challenges and finding out how learners overcome them informs us about the cognitive processes involved in language acquisition and also informs us about how we can support language acquisition in all learners.

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7/3/2023

Language-comprehension skills, such as vocabulary knowledge, syntactic abilities, and text comprehension, have found to be important skills particularly in bilingual contexts as a foundation in the development of literacy skills in a second language. Because there is no assessment in place that taps deaf children’s comprehension of BSL texts through literal and inferential dimensions, this project will first develop a new BSL comprehension task and then explore the relationship between language-comprehension skills in British Sign Language (BSL) as a first language, and the relationship between BSL text comprehension skills and English text comprehension skills.

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6/14/2022

DCAL 15yr legacy BSL video Presentation Slides

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5/5/2022

There are many myths surrounding British Sign Language (BSL) – the third most widely used indigenous language in the UK. In this lecture, Professor Woll will try to dispel some of them by introducing BSL, explaining how it works and exploring the community it has created. This is the signed version.

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3/3/2021

There are many myths surrounding British Sign Language (BSL) – the third most widely used indigenous language in the UK. In this lecture, Professor Woll will try to dispel some of them by introducing BSL, explaining how it works and exploring the community it has created.

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2/26/2021