Australian Sign Language

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	==Links==		==Links==
		+	The Auslan Shop. http://www.auslanshop.com.au/
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		+	Auslan Signbank. http://www.auslan.org.au/
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		+	Australian Sign Language Interpreters' Association. http://www.aslia.com.au/
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		+	Delivering quality educational outcomes for Deaf and hearing impaired students: The Transition to Auslan. http://education.qld.gov.au/studentservices/staff/workshops/auslan.html
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		+	National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Payment Service. http://www.nabs.org.au/01_what_is_nabs.htm
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		+	Report on Supply and Demand for Auslan Interpreters. http://fahcsia.gov.au/sa/disability/pubs/policy/Documents/auslan_report/exec.htm
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	==Notes==		==Notes==

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Basic information of the sign language

Language name	Australian Sign Language
Region	Australia

Contents 1 Language name 2 Region 3 Population of signers 4 Language family 5 Dialects 6 Linguistic characteristics 7 History 8 Related sign languages 9 Related spoken languages 10 Institutes, associations and universities 11 Dictionaries 12 Bibliography 13 Films and videos 14 Researchers 15 History of sign language research 16 Related pages 17 Links 18 Notes

Language name

Australian Sign Language

(Altanate names)Auslan

Region

Australia

Population of signers

14,000 Ethnologue, 16th Edition

Language family

Dialects

Linguistic characteristics

History

Related sign languages

Australasian Sign Language is an attempt to merge Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language into one common sign language.

Related spoken languages

Institutes, associations and universities

Dictionaries

Johnston, Trevor, ed. 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.

Bibliography

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.

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.

Napier, Jemina, Karen Bontempo and Marcel Leneham. 2006. Sign language interpreting in Australia: An Overview. [Retrieved July 3, 2008 from http://aslia.com.au/c/aslia/pub/stories/PDF/GeneralDocs/VIEWS2006.pdf]

Johnston, Trevor. 2006. Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf community?" Response to comments. In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 225-243.

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.

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.

Orima Research. 2004. Supply and demand for Auslan interpreters across Australia. Canberra : Department of Family and Community Services. [Retrieved July 3, 2008. http://facs.gov.au/disability/auslan-report/Auslan_Interpreter_Report_with_Attachments.pdf ]

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.

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.[Including information of Australian Sign Language] Napier, Jemina. 2002. University interpreting: Linguistic issues for consideration. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 7 : 281-301.

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.

Ozolins, U. and Bridge, M. 1999. Sign language interpreting in Australia. Melbourne : Language Australia.

Hyde, Merv B. and Desmond J. Power. 1992. The use of Australian Sign Langage by Deaf people. In: Sign Language Studies. 75 : 167-182.

Films and videos

Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Australia. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)

Researchers

History of sign language research

Related pages

Links

The Auslan Shop. http://www.auslanshop.com.au/

Auslan Signbank. http://www.auslan.org.au/

Australian Sign Language Interpreters' Association. http://www.aslia.com.au/

Delivering quality educational outcomes for Deaf and hearing impaired students: The Transition to Auslan. http://education.qld.gov.au/studentservices/staff/workshops/auslan.html

National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Payment Service. http://www.nabs.org.au/01_what_is_nabs.htm

Report on Supply and Demand for Auslan Interpreters. http://fahcsia.gov.au/sa/disability/pubs/policy/Documents/auslan_report/exec.htm

Notes

Countries and areas of Oceania

Continent	Australasian Sign Language | Australian Aborigines Sign Language | Australian Sign Language
Polynesia	Australasian Sign Language | New Zealand Sign Language | Samoan Sign Language
Micronesia	(no data)
Melanesia	Enga Sign Language | Fiji Sign Language | Rennellese Sign Language
Areas and others	(no data)