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Welcome to Deaf Children Australia website!
Please scroll down to see all the featured articles. You can also find more articles by clicking on "Find Information About..." button on the left. Read more about how to use this website.
Take Action!
There are a number of campaigns across Australia that you can get involved to reduce barriers for deaf children. Click here to see current campaigns.
Featured campain:
Survey: Family Support/Parent Involvement
GPOD – a Global Coalition of Parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, is conducting a survey of parents of children who have a hearing loss. Read more »
Holiday Program is coming to Melbourne!
Deaf Children Australia’s Recreation Team has organised a fantastic 2009 Victorian School Holiday’s Activity Program!
Holiday Activities on offer are...
Mon 29th June Inline Skating and Hockey Clinic
Time to put your skates on and have a great day out with some of the best value in the whole program! Read more »
Auslan Program comes to Victoria!
Deaf Children Australia is proud to announce a series of workshops for parents wishing to enhance their Auslan skills. The workshops are designed to support families who have a deaf or hard of hearing child to learn Auslan. The workshops are for beginners and intermediate level signers. Hearing siblings 10 years and over are welcomed to participate too.To find out more information please click here or contact Trisha Balharrie.
Cost: $10 per person or $15 per couple
Free child-minding available for deaf and hearing children
Read more » Breaking the Sound Barriers - Channel 7
Channel 7 reported on our book, "Breaking the Sound Barriers" and have kindly allowed us to share the story with you:
To turn on captions or select a different language, mouse over the small arrow button on the bottom right. You can either click on the "CC" option to activate the caption or select one of the other languages.
The Melbourne Launch was held on the 26th May 11am-12:30pm at Aurora School. Some of the contributors of the book were there to share their own journey with deafness. Details of the book launch in other states will be announced soon! To purchase the book, please use the button below:
Calling all budding photographers!!
Source: Melbourne Open House (MOH) website
Are you a keen photographer? Do you want to capture some of the most significant buildings in Melbourne in photos, and win a prize for it?? Read more »
H1N1 Influenza 09 (Human Swine Flu)
Source: Vicdeaf
Human Swine Flu is a respiratory disease caused by a new influenza virus. Human Swine Flu virus is infectious and is capable of spreading from human to human.
Department of Human Services Victoria and Vicdeaf have developed Auslan version of Human Swine Flu information to ensure that information on Swine flu is accessible to Auslan users. Read more »
Entries open for Dorothy Shaw Young Writers Competition
Source: Deaf Australia
Deaf Australia has announced that Dorothy Shaw Young Writers Competition (DSYWC) for young Deaf and hearing impaired people will be running again this year.
Introduction of captioning at 12 independent cinemas!
The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, made an announcement that 12 independent cinemas around Australia will now screen movies with captions for deaf and hard of hearing Australians and audio descriptions for blind or vision impaired Australians.
From 12 cinemas currently offering captioned movies, we will now have 24. The additional cinemas are: Read more »
World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness 2009
Event Calendar
Note: You may see the event time displayed in a wrong time zone (eg. GMT 00:00) when you click on an event. For the actual event time, please see the description field of the pop up window. We apologise for the inconvenience.