Our Celebration of the
life of our friend Mary Wight
Mary had been with Capability Scotland since pre 1976.
For someone who was deaf and unable to communicate vocally, Mary had fantastic communication skills. She was one of the first service users to use Bliss symbols
Blis-symbols was a system that had a large flexible vocabulary and contained logical rules for expanding vocabulary and grammar, It was like Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Mary was part of a group of service users to be introduced and to use Bliss away back in the early 70’s, and she was very quick to understand it. This was the very beginning of augmentative and alternative communication, and when new communication systems came out Mary was still using Bliss for a while and to some people it was far too complicated and a completely different language.
Mary was also one of those people who would give anything a go, she loved swimming and horse riding, she would be first to try any new activities.
She also loved a party and loved nothing better than dressing up to go out.
She always liked to be out with her friends usually for a pub lunch, and she loved her holidays, below are some of the fun times she had, and a poem from her friends.
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