Via Zoom (an online video conferencing platform) Minutes - Present MSPs Convenor – Colin Beattie MSP (Scottish National Party) Karen Adams MSP (Scottish National Party) Douglas Lumsden MSP (Conservative) Invited guests Kirsten Abioye – Lived Experience Family Member Hannah Tweed – The ALLIANCE Amanda McNamara – Teacher of the Deaf Douglas Lyons – Colin Beattie MSP staff member Non-MSP Group Members Secretariat – Janis McDonald (the ALLIANCE) Assistant Secretariat – Amy White (The ALLIANCE) AVUK – Anita Grover Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults Scotland (ATLA Scotland) – Jill Bradshaw British Deaf Association Scotland (BDA Scotland) – Avril Hepner Deafblind Scotland (DbS) – Jonathan Reid Forth Valley Sensory Centre – Jacquie Winning National Deaf Children’s Society Scotland (NDCS Scotland) – Mark Ballard Edinburgh University – Prof John Ravenscroft North East Sensory Services (NESS) – Adam Hillhouse Queen Margaret University (QMU) – Rachel Mapson Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) – Teri Devine Scottish Register of Language Professionals with the Deaf Community (SRLPDC) – Leona Glennie BATOD - Teresa Quail Sensory Impaired Support Group Ayrshire (SISG Ayrshire) – Denise McClung West Scotland Deaf Children’s Society (WSDCS) – Charlene Dolan 1 Highland/Caithness Sensory Services/Hearing and Sight Care – Deirdre Aitken EIS – Julie Ferguson RCSLT – Brogan Ferguson Dumfries and Galloway Hard of Hearing Group – Sian Bertram Sense Scotland – Joanne O’Donnell Individuals Donald Richards Language Service Professionals BSL / English Interpreter – Bruce Cameron Electronic Notetaker – Carol McGuire Electronic Notetaker – Melanie Coulter APOLOGIES MSPs Roz McCall MSP Annabelle Ewing MSP Mark Griffen MSP Invited guests Non-MSP Group Members Heads of Service, Audiology – Linda Sharkey BATOD – Cathie Finestone Paediatric Audiology – Jim Harrigan Hearing Link – Nicholas Orpin Gary Quinn – Heriot Watt University Dumfries and Galloway Hard of Hearing Group Association of Sign Language Interpreters Scotland (ASLI Scotland) – Tessa Slaughter Deaf Equality and Accessibility Forum South Lanarkshire (D.E.A.F.