After the Scottish Association for the Deaf was renamed Scottish Council on Deafness, Lilian Lawson took up position as Director.

Since then SCoD has:

• Provided continuing support to the Scottish Lipreading Tutor Training Course;


• Worked with CACDP to produce a Directory of Training Opportunities


• Organised an Information Day for Deaf people to report on the findings of the Scottish Executive’s Report 'Sensing Progress'; 


• Contributed to the development of Best Practice Standards in Social Work; 


• Engaged in a consultation exercise with deaf and hard of hearing people to ascertain their needs;


• Supported the Scottish Parliament debate on the official recognition of British Sign Language.

In addition, sub-committees were set up to look at issues in the following areas:

• Community Care


• Communication


• Health


• Education & Lifelong Learning


• The Cross Party Group on Deafness was set up (4 years before the All Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness in Westminster which only began in 2004)


• The Mental Health & Deaf People Task Group began its work


• Funding was obtained from the Scottish Executive to develop SCoD’s website.