Australia
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| Name of the country/area | Australia |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | Australia |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook (CIA) |
| Wikipedia (English) |
Indigenous signs for "Australia"
Illustrations in the literature
"Australia" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 12.)
Spoken languages
English
Sign languages
Australian Aborigines Sign Language
Related sign languages:
Australasian Sign Language（an attempt to merge Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language into one common sign language）
Population of Deaf/deaf people
- The population of the signers of Australian Sign Language: 14,000. (Ethnologue, 16th Edition)
- Deaf Australia's official or approximate number of Deaf (Sign language users) people: 16,000. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.)
Legal status of sign languages
- The Australian Government has recognised the Deaf community as a language group. ( Auslan Policy)
- Sign language for deaf people is recognized as the official language for deaf people. (Government Implementation of the Standard Rules As Seen By Member Organizations of World Federation of the Deaf – WFD : Australian Association of the Deaf, Australia, 1997.)
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
- Deaf Australia (WFD member ; established in 1986. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.))
- Australian Association of the Deaf (WFD member, data in 2002, cited from "Signs of country names" (Japanese edition, Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. 2002. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf))
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Wilson, Lyn, Brian Bernal and, Deaf Children Australia eds. 2004. Dictionary of AUSLAN. Deaf Children Australia
Johnston, Trevor and Peter Wilkin eds. 1998. Signs of Australia : a new dictionary of Auslan (the sign language of the Australian deaf community), 2nd ed. North Rocks, NSW, Australia: North Rocks Press, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.
Johnston, Trevor. 1989. AUSLAN Dictionary. A dictionary of the sign language of the Australian deaf community. Victoria : Aust. Print Group.
Jeanes, Raymond C., Brian E. Reynolds and Bernadette C. Coleman. 1989. Dictionary of Australasian signs for communication with the deaf, 3nd ed. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Victorian School for Deaf Children.
Jeanes, Raymond C., Brian E. Reynolds and Bernadette C. Coleman. 1989. Dictionary of Australasian signs for communication with the deaf, 2nd ed. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Victorian School for Deaf Children.
Wright, Cheryl D. 1980. Walpiri hand talk: an illustrated dictionary of hand signs used by the Walpiri people of central Australia. Darwin, NT: Northern Territory Department of Education.
Bibliography
Schembri, Adam, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston, David McKee, Rachel McKee and Bencie woll. 2010. Sociolinguistic variation in British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages. In : Brentari, Diane ed. Sign Languages. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 476-498.
Hyde, Merv. 2009. Inclusion in an International Context. In: Moores, Donald F. and Margery S. Miller eds. Deaf people around the world: Educational and social perspectives. Washington,DC: Gallaudet University Press. 352-367.
Power, Desmond. 2009. Deaf education and the Deaf community in Australia. In: Moores, Donald F. and Margery S. Miller eds. Deaf people around the world: Educational and social perspectives.Washington,DC : Gallaudet University Press. 3-16.
Stephen Cauchi. 2009.. Implants incite sound debate for the deaf. In : The Age.
World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.
Johnston, Trevor and Adam Schembri. 2007. Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Komesaroff, Linda. 2007. Denying claims of discrimination in the Federal Court of Australia: Arguments against the use of native sign language in education. In: Sign Language Studies. 7 : 360-386.
Power, Mary R., Desmond J. Power and Louise Horstmanshof. 2007. Deaf people communicating via SMS, TTY, relay service, fax and computers in Australia. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 12 : 80-92.
Punch, Renee, Merv Hyde and Desmond J. Power. 2007. Career and workplace experiences of Australian university students and graduates who are deaf or hard of hearing. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 12 : 504-517.
Schembri, Adam. and Trevor Johnston. 2007. Sociolinguistic variation in the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language (Auslan) : A pilot study. In : Sign Language Studies. 7(3). 319-347.
Access Economics. 2006. Listen hear! The economic impact and cost of hearing loss in Australia. Melbourne :Cooperative research centre for cochlear impact and hearing aid innovation and the Victorian Deaf society. [Retrieved July 3, 2008]
Carty, Breda M. 2006. Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf community?" In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 220-225.
Hyde, Merv B., Desmond J. Power and Karen Lloyd. 2006. Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf community?" In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 190-202.
Hyde, Merv, Stein Erik Ohna . And Oddvar Hjulstadt. 2006. A comparison of the definitions, policies and practices associated with the educational inclusion of deaf students in Australia and Norway. In: American annals of the Deaf. 150(5) : 415-426.
Johnston, Trevor. 2006. Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf community?" Response to comments. In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 225-243.
Johnston, Trevor. 2006. W(h)ither the Deaf community: population, genetics and the future of Australian Sign Language. In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 137-173.
Miers, Kyle. 2006. AAD Outlook Giving Deaf people a fair go. In: AAD Outlook. 15(8) : 2.
Napier, Jemina, Karen Bontempo and Marcel Leneham. 2006. Sign language interpreting in Australia: An Overview. [Retrieved July 3, 2008]
O'Reilly, Suzannah. 2006. Indigenous Sign Language and Culture; the interpreting and access needs of Deaf people who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association.
Schembri, Adam and Trevor Johnston. 2006. Sociolinguistic variation in the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: a pilot study In : Sign language studies. 7. 319–347.
Schembri, Adam. and Trevor Johnston. 2006. Sociolinguistic variation in Australian Sign Language Projec : Grammatical and lexical variation. Paper presented at the ninth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR9), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
Schembri, Adam., Johnston, Trevor and Goswell, Della. 2006. NAME dropping : Location variation in Australian Sign Language. In : Lucas, Ceil ed. Multilingualism and Sign Languages : From the Great Plains to Australia. Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, vol.12. Washington DC : Gallaudet University Press. 121-156.
Carty, Brenda M. 2005. Managing their own affairs: The Australian Deaf community during the 1920s and 1930s. Queensland : Griffith University. [Unpublished PhD thesis. Retrieved July 3, 2008]
O’Reilly, Suzannah, Queensland. Disability Services, Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association and Deaf Children Australia eds. 2005. Indigenous Sign Language and Culture. O'Reilly, Suzannah Jaclyn.
Schembri, Adam, Caroline Jones and Denis Burnham. 2005. Comparing action gestures and classifer verbs of motion : Evidence from Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and nonsigners gesture without speech. In : Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 10. 272-290.
Deaf Employment Australia and Deaf Children Australia. 2004. Auslan Phrase Book: A Reference to Workplace Signs for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People Who Use Auslan. Deaf Children Australia.
Hyde, Merv B. and Desmond J.Power. 2004. The personal and professional characteristics and patterns of work of itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing in Australia. In: Volta Review. 104 : 51-68.
Hyde, Merv and Desmond Power. 2004. Educational inclusion of deaf students: An examination of the definitions of inclusion in relation to the findings of a recent Australian study of deaf students in regular classes. In: Deafness and education international. 6(2) : 82-99.
Napier, Jemina and Roz Barker. 2004. Accessing university education: Perceptions, preferences, and expectations for interpreting by deaf students. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 9 : 228-238.
Commonwealth of Australia. 2004. Report on Supply and demand for Auslan interpreters. Canberra : Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Power, Mary R. and Desmond J. Power. 2004. Everyone here speaks TXT: Deaf people using SMS in Australia and the rest of the world. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 9 : 333-343.
Johnston, Trevor. 2004. W(h)ither the Deaf Community? Population, Genetics, and the Future of Australian Sign Language. In : American Annals of the Deaf (Gallaudet University Press) 148 (5): 358–375.
Monaghan, Leila. 2003. A world's eye view: Deaf cultures in global perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 1-24. [Including information of Africa (general), Asia (general), Oceania (general), Hausa Sign Language, Ban Khor Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Australasian Sign Language ]
Power, Desmond J. and Merv B. Hyde. 2003. Itinerant teachers of the Deaf and hard of hearing and their students in Australia: Some state comparisons. In: International journal of disability, development and education. 50 : 385-402.
Sutton-Spence, Rachel. 2003. British manual Alphabets in the education of Deaf people since the 17th century. In:Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf:International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 25-48.
Napier, Jemina. 2002. University interpreting: Linguistic issues for consideration. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 7 : 281-301.
Power, Desmond and Merv Hyde B. 2002. The characteristics and extent of participation of deaf and hard of hearing students in regular classes in Australian schools. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 7 : 302-311.
Schembri, Adam., Wigglesworth, Gillian, Johnston, Trevor, Leigh, Greg,. Rovert, Adam, & Barker, Roz. 2002. Issues in development of the Test Battery for Auslan Morphology and Syntax Project. In : Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 7, 18–40.
Flynn, John W. 2001. A Brief History of Sign Language Interpreting in Australia. Australian Sign Language Interpreters' Association Victoria.
Johnston, Trevor. 2001. Nouns and verbs in Australian Sign Language : An open and shut case? In : Journal of Deaf studies and Deaf Education. 6. 235-257.
Power, Desmond J. 2001. Deafness and sign language in government policy documents 1983-1990. In: Joseph. Lo Bianco and Rosie Wickert eds. Australian policy activism in language and literacy.: 279-292. Canberra : Language Australia.
Schembri, Adam. 2001. Issues in the analysis of polycomponential verbs in Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Sydney, Australia.
Carty, Brenda. 2000. John Carmichael: Australian Deaf pioneer. In Schembri A., J. Napier, R. Beattie and G. R. Leigh eds. Proceedings of the Australasian Deaf Studies Research Symposium. Renwick College, Sydney, August 22-23, 1998. Sydney: North Rocks Press. 9-20.
Johnston, Trevor. 2000. BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three Signed Languages or One? In : Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Onno Crasborn eds. Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 2003. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 47-69.
McKee, David and Graeme Kennedy. 2000. Lexical Comparisons of Signs from American, Australian, British and New Zealand Sign Languages. In : Emmorey, Karen and Harlan Lane eds. The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. 43-73.
2000. Australian Sign Language. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 28-29.
2000. Australia. : In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 28.
Fitzgerald Sarah. 1999. Open Minds, Open Hearts : Stories of the Australian Catholic Deaf Community. Lidcombe, NSW: CCOD.
Ozolins, U. and Bridge, M. 1999. Sign language interpreting in Australia. Melbourne : Language Australia.
Rumsey, Catherine. 1999. Australia. In: H. William Brelje ed. Global perspectives on the education of the deaf in selected countries. Hillsboro, OR. : Butte Publications. 1-30.
Kendon, Adam. 1998. Sign languages of aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic, and communication perspectives. New York : Cambridge University Press.
Madell, Samantha. 1998. Warlpiri Sign Language and Auslan - A Comparison. Master of Arts (Applied Anthropology and Development). Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Watanabe, Yoshihiko. 1998. Attracting world of hearing's sign talk : Slight impressions on translating "WARLPIRI HAND TALK". In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 30(1998.12) :38-46.
Johnston, Trevor and Adam Schembri 1996. Defining and profiling lexis in sign language -Auslan. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. September 19-22, 1996 Montréal. Manuskript.
Schembri, Adam. 1996. The structure and formation of signs in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Sydney, Australia: North Rocks Press.
Branson, Jan and Don Miller. 1995. The story of Betty Steel: Deaf convict and pioneer. Petersham, NSW. Deafness Resiurces Australia.
Aquiline, Carol-Lee. 1994. Theater of the Deaf in Australia. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 746-750.
Carty, Breda. 1994. The development of Deaf identity. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 40-43.
Kendon, A. 1994. Sign Languages. Contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. David, Horton, ed. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Lloyd, Karen. 1994. Reaching the Deaf community for literacy. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 291-294.
Moon, Valerie. 1994. Sharing experiences: Deafness awareness programs in Australia. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 706-712.
O'Reilly, Carol. 1994. The development of Australia's Deaf community in the twentieth century. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 155-157.
Warby, Linda and Michael Clancy 1994. Adult education in the Deaf community: The Australian Deaf heritage. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 656-657.
Hyde, Merv B. and Desmond J. Power. 1992. The use of Australian Sign Langage by Deaf people. In: Sign Language Studies. 75 : 167-182.
1992. Australia. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders [first edition]. New York : Facts on File.
Johnston, Trevor. 1991. Spatial syntax and spatial semantics in the inflection of signs for the marking of person and location in AUSLAN. In: International Journal of Sign Linguistics. 1 2, 29-62.
Quek, Joan. Summer 1991. Occasions for sign use in an Australian Aborigine community. In: Sign Language Studies. 71. 143-160. [Including information of Manjiljarra Sign Language ]
Deaf Society of New South Wales. 1989. Operation Knock Knock : A Profile of the Deaf Community of New South Wales. Parramatta, NSW : Deaf Society of New South Wales.
Johnston, Trevor. 1989. Auslan: the sign language of the Australian deaf community. University of Sydney.
Kendon Adam. 1988. Parallels and divergences between Walbiri Sign Language and spoken Warlpiri: analyses of signed and spoken discourses. In : Oceania. 58. 239-54.
Kendon, Adam. 1988. Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
MacDougall, James. 1988. The development of the Australian Signed English system. In: The Australian Teacher of the Deaf. 29 : 18-36.
Flynn, J.W. 1987. Sign languages : Australian. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 56-58.
Kendon, Adam. 1987. Simultaneous Speaking and Signing in Walbiri Sign Language Users. In : Multilingua. 1987, 6: 25-68.
Kendon, Adam. 1987. Sign languages : Australian Aboriginal. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. ‘’Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness.’’ New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 58-59.
Power, D.J. 1987. Australia. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.1. 126-130.
Kendon, A. 1986．Iconicity in Walbiri Sign Language . In P. Bouissac, M. Herzfeld and R. Posner, eds., Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture. Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok on his 65th Birthday, Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 437-446.
Kendon, Adam. 1985. Variation in Central Australian Aboriginal Sign language: A preliminary report. In : Language in Central Australia. 1(4): 1-11.
Flynn, John. W. 1984. No Longer By Gaslight. the first 100 years of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria. Melbourne : Adult Deaf Society of Victoria.
Kendon, Adam. 1984. Knowledge of sign language in an Australian Aboriginal community. In : Journal of Anthropological Research. 1984. (40), 556-576.
Kendon, Adam. 1980. The sign language of the women of Yuendumu: A preliminary report on the structure of Warlpiri sign language. In : Sign Language Studies. 1980 (27), 101-112.
Wright, C.D. 1980. Walpiri Hand Talk: An Illustrated Dictionary of Hand Signs used by the Walpiri People of Central Australia. Darwin: N.T. Department of Education.
Umiker-Seboek, Donna J. and Thomas A. Sebeok eds. 1978. Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York. Plenum Press.
Contents: ・ Miller, Wick R. 1978. A report on the sign language of the Western Desert (Australia). 435-440. [Including information of Western Desert Sign Language ]
・ Meggit, Mervyn. 1954.=1978. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. 409-423. [Including information of Walbiri Sign Language ]
・ Love, James Robert Beattie. 1941=1978. Worora kinship gestures. 403-405. [Including information of Worora Kinship Sign Language ]
・ Berndt, Ronald Murray. 1940=1978. Notes on the sign-language of the Jaralde tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia. 397-402. [Including information of Jaralde Sign Language ]
・ Mountford, Charles Pearcy. 1938=1978. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. 393-396. [Including information of Ngada Sign Language ]
・ Warner, W. Lloyd. 1937=1978. Murngin Sign Language. 389-392.
・ Strehlow, Carl. 1907=1978. The sign language of the Aranda. 349-370. [Including information of Aranda Sign Language ]
・ Roth, Walter E. 1897=1978. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. 273-301. [Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa.]
Meggit, Mervyn. 1954. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. In: Oceania. 1954. 25(1): 2-16. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 409-423.) [Including information of Walbiri Sign Language ]
Mountford, Charles Pearcy. 1949. Gesture language of the Walpari tribe, central Australia. In : Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 1949, 73: 100-101.
Love, James Robert Beattie. 1941. Worora kinship gestures. In : Transactions Of The Royal Society Of South Australia 65(1) 108-109. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 403-405.) [Including information of Worora Kinship Sign Language ]
Berndt, Ronald Murray. 1940. Notes on the sign-language of the Jaralde tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia. In : Transactions Of The Royal Society Of South Australia 64(2) 267-272. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 397-402. [Including information of Jaralde Sign Language ]
Mountford, Charles Pearcy. 1938. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. In: Oceania 9: 152-155. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 393-396.) [Including information of Ngada Sign Language ]
Warner, W. Lloyd. 1937. Murngin Sign Language. In: Warner, W. Lloyd ed. A Black Civilization. New York: Harper and Row. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 389-392.)
Strehlow, Carl. 1907. The sign language of the Aranda. In: Strehlow, Carl. Ed. Die Aranda-und-Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Frankfurt: Baer; translated by C. Chewings. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 349-370.) [Including information of Aranda Sign Language ]
Haddon, Alfred C. 1907. The gesture language of the Eastern Islanders. In: Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. v.3. Cambridge, England: The University Press. [Including information of Torres Straits Islander Sign Language ]
Roth, Walter E. 1897. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. In: Roth, W.E. eds. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London: Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office. 71-90. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 273-301.) [Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa.]
Films and videos
Carty, Brenda M., Neale, J. and Desmond Power. 1997. Deaf studies program: p-7(Video unit 3: Deaf people in the past in Australia). Brisbane : Language Australia centre for Deafness and communication studies, Griffith University.
Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Australia. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Australian Communication Exchange
Australian Sign Language Interpreters' Association
National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Payment Service
Report on Supply and Demand for Auslan Interpreters
Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Australia
Notes
| Oceania (general) | Oceania (general) |
|---|---|
| Continent | Australia |
| Polynesia | Kiribati | New Zealand | Samoa | Tonga | Tuvalu |
| Micronesia | Federated States of Micronesia | Marshall Islands | Nauru | Palau |
| Melanesia | Fiji | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | Vanuatu |
| Areas and others |
