Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Emily Quinn Smyth's enthusiasm for science is contagious and the hearing impaired UTS masters student has her sights set on completing a ...

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison thanked the Deaf Society and Deaf Services for all the work they do to help empower with non-verbal communication those who are hearing impaired. The ...

A school on the Bellarine Peninsula has introduced Auslan sign language, with a support organisation revealing how it could lead to more inclusion for the Deaf community. Queenscliff’s St Aloysius ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Billed as a world-first, the Sydney Philharmonia Choir's presentation of Handel's Messiah will feature a deaf community "signing" choir ...

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 ...

Students looking to learn the Australian sign language, or Auslan, will be forced to go outside Canberra for formal qualifications, after Canberra's Institute of Technology (CIT) shelved the course ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect system, the researchers have created a tool that could be used to teach deaf children’s parents sign language in their own homes, helping to avoid the need for expensive ...

An Australian sign language interpreter has revealed the essential terms everyone should know, from simple greetings to asking someone to call triple zero. In a series of TikTok videos which have gone ...