Could redefining Auslan as an acceptable second language for hearing children potentially create a demand that could provide opportunities for many, not just the deaf? Mother Maria Roccon, of ...

Tallula Bourne was born deaf and did not properly hear music until she received cochlear implants at age 12. Tallula Bourne was born deaf and Lorde was one of the first musicians she could hear ...

As government COVID updates have become a daily part of our lives over the past 12 months, so too has the sight of sign language interpreters on our screens. This has understandably had a huge impact ...

Shenton College students will become the first in WA to study sign language to Year 12. Fourteen students out of the first class of 32 who started learning Auslan in Year 8 when it began at Shenton ...

Auslan sign language is emerging as one of the most popular new language options in primary schools – but we’re running out of teachers despite TAFE enrolments soaring. Auslan is emerging as the ...

Signbank is the authoritative dictionary of Auslan, Australian Sign Language. It was developed by Prof Trevor Johnston at Macquarie University, who also developed the Auslan Corpus—a collection of ...

NSW students from Kindergarten to Year 10 will soon be able to learn Auslan as an elective, with Australia reporting a large shortage of interpreters. On Tuesday, the NSW Education and Early Learning ...

There’s a new online platform that lets hearing Aussies learn Auslan, or Australian Sign Language, from Deaf people around the country. Auslan Anywhere is set up kind of like a social network (Twitter ...

Billed as a world-first, the Sydney Philharmonia Choir's presentation of Handel's Messiah will feature a deaf community "signing" choir on stage alongside a full orchestra and the 400 massed voices of ...

A Melbourne Auslan training program says they have seen around an 80 per cent spike in people looking to enroll in their lessons since the beginning of the year. Auslan interpreter Emma Roeschlein ...

This textbook was developed by a team of Deaf and hearing researchers at Monash University. The textbook is targeted at adult beginner learners of Auslan enrolled at the Certificate II level. The ...