The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

Dr Gearóidín McEvoy discusses her activities as part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (2021-2024).

24 March 2025

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages (LRSL) looked at how legal recognition of sign languages impact Deaf people in Ireland, Finland and across the UK.

The goal was to investigate how laws which purported to protect, promote or recognise signed languages actually impacted Deaf people and how those laws might be changed or improved to better serve the needs of the Deaf Community. Read full article...

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in Law and Language
Birmingham Law School
Academic profile of Dr Gearóidín McEvoy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in Law and Language, University of Birmingham
Email: g.mcevoy@bham.ac.uk

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy

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