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Resources from DCAL

DCAL Lay Summaries

Our lay summaries are now available to watch, please follow the link below:

Watch Lay Summaries

Discover UCL summer school

Three people, two men and a woman, closely examining an exhibit in a museum, engaged in a hands-on learning activity.

A summer school for D/deaf and hard of hearing students. The Summer School aims to equip D/deaf and hard of hearing participants for university life and further diversify UCL's student population.

DCAL Assessment Portal

A woman showing something on a laptop to a young boy, both sitting at a table in a professional setting.

Our online test portal provides those who work with deaf adults and children with the opportunity to purchase tests of cognition, sign language and speechreading developed through research carried out at DCAL.

Clinical Assessment

A nurse in a blue uniform conversing with an elderly man, both using sign language, in a bright, comfortable living room.

Members of the DCAL team work with UCL Partners Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen's Square, London, to provide a National Cognitive Disorders Clinic for Deaf patients.

DCAL colleagues also provide input to the Sign Language Assessment Clinic at the Roberta Williams Speech and Language Therapy Centre at City University London.

Sign Language Facts

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Learn more about DCAL, deafness and sign language with our FAQs about Sign Language and our History of British Sign Language online exhibition.

Our work with schools

Good practice in research with deaf children:

Briefing paper 2009

Background BATOD paper with Karen Simpson and Ruth Swanwick 2008

The research with deaf children Good Practice Agreement