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 ...

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 ...

As a child growing up in Sydney, Emma Watkins was always enthralled by sign language. Her best friend had two brothers, both of whom were deaf, and Watkins wanted to know what they said to each other ...

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 ...

Over the course of six episodes, Our Deaf Ways features Deaf people from all walks of life and all ages talking about Deaf Ways. Produced in partnership with Deaf Australia and hosted by Deaf advocate ...

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry on with their business. But when something out of the ...

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 ...

Just four per cent of Victorian public schools teach mainstream students the national sign language, Auslan. But Deaf Children Australia boss Dean Barton-Smith said more schools needed to introduce ...