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| | othername = Dusty/Dassy<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> | |||
| | birth_date = {{birth date|1914|06|19|df=y}} | |||
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| ⚫ | '''Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|s|ə|'|n|aɪ|ə|k|ə}} {{Respell|də|sə|NY|ə|kə}} {{langx|si|කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක}}; {{langx|ta|தசநாயக்க கிளாரென்ஸ் கிங்ஸ்லி}}; born 19 June 1914, date of death unknown), the first non-foreign Principal of the in ], ]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071028/Plus/plus00013.html |title = It was a learning experience}}</ref> was the inventor of the ] system,<ref name="sinhalabraille"/><ref name="unescointjstor" /> and served as the Chairman of the ] for disabled Scouts of the ]<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for ] of the ] from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of ]–] in the 1960s. | ||
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| ==Early life== | |||
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| Dassanaike was born in ], ] on 19 June 1914. He began Scouting as a ] at 15th Colombo at Mount Lavinia on 19 June 1919, under ].<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> During the course of his Scouting career he worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind alongside ], ], ], and ], who would later found the ] based on their work together.<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> He participated and read papers at International Scout Conferences on the subject of disabled Scouting in ] and ], visited Thailand, Kenya and Uganda to promote the subject, and had his greatest success in ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> At the 1947 ] in France, he was in charge of the British Contingent of Handicapped Scouts.<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> He was attached to Third Handicapped Group in ], while serving at the ] in London, and by the time of the 1957 ] at ], he served in a Special Committee attached to the International Advisory Bureau for Handicapped Scouts.<ref>Pg. No 105 of the Sri Lanka Scout Association Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962</ref> Upon his return to Sri Lanka, he assisted in revising "]" in the ].<ref name="Ameresekere"/> | |||
| ==Sinhala Braille system== | |||
| In 1972, he was awarded the 76th '']'', the only distinction of the ], awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, (refer Pg. 221 of '250 Million Scouts' by Lazlo Nagi) the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date.<ref name=awardees/> He served in a Special Committee attached to the International Advisory Bureau for Handicapped Scouts and was a Vice-President of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind. (refer Pg. No 105 of the Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962.) most of us have not known or forgotten but the Sinhalese Blind Community in Sri Lanka honours with great respect. | |||
| In 1947, Dassanaike, principal of the school for the blind at Ratmalana,<ref>https://www.freunde-der-dzb.de/files/papers_topic_6_weerawardhana.doc {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> introduced a Sinhala Braille code influenced by the English Braille code.<ref name="sinhalabraille">Dassanaike K.C., (1960) Sinhala Braille kramaya.</ref><ref name="unescointjstor"> UNESCO, 1956. xxvii, 139 p. (UNESCO ... (1956), 97-104. UNESCO international seminar on public ...... DASSENAIKE, KINGSLEY C.</ref> In 1952, a universally accepted ] was introduced by ].<ref></ref><ref>UNESCO, 1953, pp 27–28</ref> Further he was vice-president of the ].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/bm/Abm/bm1958/BrailleMonitorApril1958.html |title = Braille Monitor, April, 1958}}</ref> | |||
| Further he was Vice-President of the ].{{cn|date=December 2016}} In 1952, when a universally accepted ] was introduced by ], Dassanayake prepared the Sri Lankan Braille System.{{cn|date=December 2016}} At the Commemoration of the Death Centenary of Louis Braille in 1952, a Universal Braille system was introduced by UNESCO. As the inventor of the Sinhalese Braille system and as the then Principal of the School for the Deaf & Blind in Ratmalana, Mr Dassanaike was in that committees and was able to get the authentication to use the said Sinhalese Braille System worldwide, as a system of International Standard. With all the Sinhalese blind people who are the beneficiaries of his hard work, all of us who are scouts may appreciate with great respect and honour the service he had rendered to our blind brothers and sisters. | |||
| When a non blind person like you and I see a message written in Braille, we think it's a language so hard to learn. But it's not so. Only learning the first 10 letters from 'a' to 'j' you can learn the whole alphabet, punctuations and numerals and write a message in Braille practically (in English) within 30 minutes. Learning the first 10 characters of the alphabet is so simple and very interesting. Writing Braille in Sinhalese is also not so complicated as we think. There are only a few additions in sinhala as 'deerga ispilla' deerga papilla' etc. to remember. But if any body knows how to write a Sinhalese sms in English letters, he or she can write in Sinhalese Braille too, as it is more similar. But the problem is not there. The problem is the way we are thinking. why we should learn Braille as we can see well? Merely for the happiness of a blind person who will be so happy to receive a Braille message from a non blind person, thinking that 'I am not alone in the blind community. But there's a brother or a sister who cares me' As Scouts let us remember what B-P said in his Last Message to Scouts. "...But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people.."Are you ready to learn Braille & to put a smile on a face of an innocent blind child? I am ready to teach you. Tution fee: Only the happiness I get by teaching you, hoping that one day you make a blind person happy. Is that cost affordable to you?" | |||
| '''තිත් 08ක බ්රේල් අක්ෂර ක්රමය''' | |||
| පොදු අකුරු රටාවේ මෙන්ම බ්රේල් අරඹයා ද කලින් කළ ගැටළු මතුවේ. එය ස්වභාවික තත්වයකි. විෂයානුබද්ධ සංවර්ධනය සේම දෘශ්යාබාධිත ශිෂ්ය ප්රජාවගේ අධ්යයන වපසරිය වැඩී යාම ද නිසා උද්ගත වන නව අභියෝග සදහා සාර්ථක පිළිතුරු සැපයෙන්නේ බ්රේල් ක්රමය අදාල විෂය හා බ්රේල් යන්ත්රෝපකරණවල ස්වභාවය ද දැන් විශේෂඥ මණ්ඩලයක බුද්ධි මහිමයෙනි. තිතක මහිවයෙන් අන ලද අන්ධ විද්යාර්ථයෙහි වූ ලොව පුරා විවිධ වෘත්තීන් හි නියැලෙති. තිත් 08ක බ්රේල් කෝෂයක් නිර්මාණය වූයේ නෙත් අඳ ගුවන් යානා ඉංජිනේරුවන් ගේ අවශ්යතාව මතය. | |||
| '''සිංහල බ්රේල් ක්රමය''' | |||
| සිංහල බ්රේල් ක්රමය සදහා පාදක වූයේ ඉංග්රීසි අක්ෂර හෝඩිය පාදක කරගෙන එහි බ්රේල් අකුරු හැඩ අනුුව සිංහළය හෝ අන් බසක හෝ අකුරු පිළියෙල කිරීමේ මූලධර්මට සමරූපපිතා න්යාය ලෙස හැදින්වේ. ඒ අනුව ඉංග්රීසි A, B, C, ආදී අක්ෂර සදහා සිංහළ "අ,බ,ච," ආදී ලෙස අකුරු සකසා තිබේ. කිංස්ලි දසනායක මහතා හදුන්වා දුන් Q, Z, අකුරුවල බ්රේල් හැඩය සිංහලයේ දී භාවිත කරන්නේ සිංහලයට ම ආවේණික අකුරු සදහා බ්රේල් ලියන පුවරුවෙහි හෝ බ්රේල් යතුරු ලියනයෙහි නිපැයුම් තාක්ෂණය අනුව පිල්ලම් භාවිත වනුයේ අකුරට සමාන්තරව විනා අකුරට ඉහලින් හෝ පහලින් නොවීම විශේෂත්වයකි. ඉංග්රීසි අනුරූපතාව භාවිතට නිසා සිංහළ බ්රේල් සදහා සමහර පිල්ලම් රටා ඇත්තේම නැත. (ගයනුතිත්ත, යංශය, රේපය, රකාරාංශය) ආදී ලෙස ඒවා නොමැතිවීම ලිවීමට හෝ කියවීමට හෝ බාදාවක් නොවූවද අන්ධ ශිෂ්යයා සිංහල පිල්ලම් හා අක්ෂර රටාව පිළිබද විශේෂ කොට හැදෑරීමෙන් සිය සාමාන්ය අකුරු කලාව හා බ්රේල් සිංහල අකුරු කලාව අතර වන නොසැසදීම් විෂයෙහි වැටහීමක් ලබනු ඇත. ගණිතය, විද්යාව, තර්ක ශාස්ත්රය, සංගීතය, වැනි සංකේත බහුල විෂයන් පවා හැදෑරීමට අවශ්ය ලෙස මේ වන විට බ්රේල් මාධ්ය පොහොසත්ය. | |||
| සිරස් අතට සාමන්තර කෙටි සේවා 02 ක සාමාන්ය බ්රේල් අක්ෂර ක්රමය තිත් 06 ක් පාදක කොට පවති. ඉහළ සිට පහළට වම් පසින් තිත් 03 ක් ද ඊට සමාන්තර ඒ ආකාර වූ තවත් තිත් 03 ක් ද වශයෙන් මේ 06 සළකුණු කරන අතර මේ තිත් 06 න් ආකාර 63ක් හා හැඩ රටා නිර්මාණය කළ හැකිය. මෙම තිත් 06ක එකතුව බ්රේල් කෝෂයක් ලෙස (BRAILLE CELL) නම් කෙරේ. අකුර සංකීර්ණවත්ම එක් කෝෂයක් වෙනුවට කෝෂ 02 වුව භාවිත කළ හැකිය. තිත් 06 ක මෙම සූත්රය ලොව පවතින ඕනෑම බසක සාමාන්ය අකුරු සදහා අදාල කොට ගෙන ආදේශ කිරීමට ඒ බසෙහි භාවිත අතුරු කලාව හා බ්රේල් මාධ්ය පිළිබද දැනුමක් ඇත්තවුන් විසින් ඉතා ප්රවේසමින් කළ යුත්තකි. | |||
| ==Later life in Scouting== | |||
| In 1972, he was awarded the 76th '']'', the only distinction of the ], awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting,<ref>Dr. László Nagy, ''250 Million Scouts'', The ] and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221</ref><ref name="awardees">{{Cite web |url=https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list |title=Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org |access-date=2016-12-04 |archive-date=2020-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053624/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List |url-status=dead }}</ref> the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date. | |||
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| Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike | |
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 1st Bronze Wolf in Sri Lanka | |
| Born | (1914-06-19)19 June 1914 Moratuwa, Sri Lanka |
| Other names | Dusty/Dassy |
Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike (/dəsəˈnaɪəkə/ də-sə-NY-ə-kə Sinhala: කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක; Tamil: தசநாயக்க கிளாரென்ஸ் கிங்ஸ்லி; born 19 June 1914, date of death unknown), the first non-foreign Principal of the Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka was the inventor of the Sinhala Braille system, and served as the Chairman of the Extension Scout Committee for disabled Scouts of the World Organization of the Scout Movement as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for Colombo of the Sri Lanka Scout Association from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of Moratuwa–Piliyandala in the 1960s.
Early life
Dassanaike was born in Moratuwa, Ceylon on 19 June 1914. He began Scouting as a Cub Scout at 15th Colombo at Mount Lavinia on 19 June 1919, under Charles P. Dharmakirti. During the course of his Scouting career he worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind alongside Edmund Godfrey-Faussett, Charles Dymoke Green Jr., E. W. Kannangara, and Yorihiro Matsudaira, who would later found the Nippon Agoonoree based on their work together. He participated and read papers at International Scout Conferences on the subject of disabled Scouting in New Delhi and Manila, visited Thailand, Kenya and Uganda to promote the subject, and had his greatest success in Hong Kong. At the 1947 6th World Scout Jamboree in France, he was in charge of the British Contingent of Handicapped Scouts. He was attached to Third Handicapped Group in Birmingham, while serving at the Boy Scouts International Bureau in London, and by the time of the 1957 9th World Scout Jamboree at Sutton Park, he served in a Special Committee attached to the International Advisory Bureau for Handicapped Scouts. Upon his return to Sri Lanka, he assisted in revising "Scouting for Boys" in the Sinhala language.
Sinhala Braille system
In 1947, Dassanaike, principal of the school for the blind at Ratmalana, introduced a Sinhala Braille code influenced by the English Braille code. In 1952, a universally accepted Braille system was introduced by UNESCO. Further he was vice-president of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind.
Later life in Scouting
In 1972, he was awarded the 76th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date.
References
- ^ D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
- "It was a learning experience".
- ^ Dassanaike K.C., (1960) Sinhala Braille kramaya.
- ^ Bibliography UNESCO, 1956. xxvii, 139 p. (UNESCO ... (1956), 97-104. UNESCO international seminar on public ...... DASSENAIKE, KINGSLEY C.
- scout.org
- scout.org
- Pg. No 105 of the Sri Lanka Scout Association Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962
- https://www.freunde-der-dzb.de/files/papers_topic_6_weerawardhana.doc
- UNESCO/MC/Conf.9/10 Paris, 8 December 1950 "Interim Memorandum on Uniform Braille for India and South East Asia, with due reference to its Co-ordinated Relationship to the Braille of Other Areas" p. 2/3 section "Ceylon"
- UNESCO, 1953, pp 27–28
- "Braille Monitor, April, 1958".
- Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221
- "Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org". Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
