[4] After he left RNID he set up the political pressure group Federation of Deaf People (FDP) in 1997.
As the chair, he and the FDP are primarily responsible for pressuring the UK government into officially recognizing British Sign Language.
[5] On 18 March 2003 the UK government formally recognized that BSL is a language in its own right.
[6] He previously worked as a researcher for the BBC television programme See Hear.
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