June Smith (Deaf teacher)
June Smith is a British Sign Language tutor. She is Deaf and a British Sign Language user.
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She was born in 1950 in London to a deaf family. She has an older brother and a younger sister.
June left school at 14, and initially she followed her mother’s steps as a factory worker. She worked as a punch operator, and then as a printer for 15 years for Peter Jones, part of the John Lewis group.[1]
She met her lifelong partner, Frances Elton, in London. In 1978, together with a few other Deaf LGBT+ people, she set up the Brothers and Sisters Club, a Deaf LGBT club, which she helped running for 25 years.[2][3]
In 1986 she was approached to attend a course at Durham University, where she attained a teaching qualification in Sign Language. Since, she dedicated herself to teaching British Sign Language, working for several schools until retirement.
As well as a BSL trainer, Smith is a refined storyteller. In particular, her story “The tree” has been referenced by linguistics texts.[4][5][6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Close Up 2: June Smith on BSL Zone".
- ↑ "Brothers and Sisters Club on LGBT History UK".
- ↑ "Deaf LGBTIQA website".
- ↑ "BSL QED website".
- ↑ Morgan, Gary (2002). "Children's encoding of simultaneity in British Sign Language narratives". Sign Language & Linguistics. 5:2. p. 131–165. doi:10.1075/sll.5.2.04mor.
- ↑ Sutton-Spence, Rachel; Napoli, Donna (2010). "Anthropomorphism in Sign Languages: A Look at Poetry and Storytelling with a Focus on British Sign Language". Sign Language Studies. 10. p. 442-475. doi:10.1353/sls.0.0055.
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