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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Deaf community is encouraging the "hearing" community to learn the basics of Australian sign language — Auslan — to better communicate with the deaf or hard of hearing, saying the effort could ...

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 ...

Thousands of people backed James' petition and the year-long process has led to an incredible result at the ABC.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advocates for the deaf community are concerned Auslan sign language courses will be shelved by Canberra Institute of Technology, the ACT's only course supplier. Former CIT Auslan co-ordinator Mandy ...