Australian Sign Language
From AASL
Language name | Australian Sign Language |
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Region | Australia |
Language name
Australian Sign Language
(Altanate names)Auslan
Region
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
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.
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, Uldis and Bridge, M. 1999. Sign language interpreting in Australia. Melbourne : Language 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.
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.
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
Continent | Australasian Sign Language | Australian Aborigines Sign Language | Australian Sign Language |
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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) |