Despite growing up with hearing loss, it was a housemate who inspired Kate Disher-Quill to start Auslan lessons. "I was kind of shocked that I hadn't thought about [learning Auslan] before," says ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the disability community and human rights groups have criticised the New South Wales government scaling back the presence of Auslan interpreters for press conferences, including those Covid ...

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 ...

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 ...

The International Day of Sign Languages, which is observed on September 23 every year, is meant to celebrate the unique visual-manual means of communication across the world that help support the ...

Auslan interpreters have straight-up vanished from NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s COVID-19 press conferences, which is a huge loss for the state’s hearing-impaired community. Over on Twitter, people ...

On Tuesday, the NSW Education and Early Learning Minister Prue Car launched the syllabus, which has been developed in consultation with the Deaf community. Teachers will now be able to familiarise ...