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Milestones 1927-99
- Developed and established a number of employment schemes for Deaf people like the market garden scheme in Ayrshire, boot repairing business in Glasgow and secretarial training centre for Girls
- Developed and ran an extensive Library on Deafness at Moray House College of Higher Education (which was handed over to Scottish Sensory Centre)
- Visited by Helen Keller who donated a bullock to be sold and the funds donated to SAD, which was later given to Sense Scotland in 1985. From this gift, Sense Scotland developed the Helen Keller Award
- Secured (safe) Crown Court recognition of the need for professional Sign Language Interpreter services
- Been instrumental in the establishment of Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI)
- Established Scotland's first and only Voluntary Register of Deaf and hard of hearing people
- Secured the continuation of the subtitling of STV's evening news programme, after extensive lobbying
- Developed "HearHere", a quarterly newsletter which at one time had the highest circulation of any publication in the Deaf Community in the UK
- Campaigned with other societies to ensure the continued employment of the three ministers for deaf people in Scotland by the Church of Scotland
- Secured recognition for Sign Language Interpreting as a profession, established the first qualifying courses for Sign Language Interpreters in Scotland and awarded the first certificates to them in Scotland, in conjunction with SASLI
- Secured funding for the first ever course in Scotland to enable Deaf people to train as Tutors of British Sign Language
- Supported CACDP to produce a Directory of Training Opportunities