Two popular visitor destinations in Gippsland, Bass Coast and East Gippsland, are making the accommodation experience better for visitors to the region with Hospitality Kits for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.    Read more »

Source: Signbaby www.signbaby.com.au

Sofya Gollan from Playschool presents SignBaby, an easy to use and fun DVD jam-packed with over 200 Australian signs to cover all kinds of situations, at home or out and about with your baby or child. With an introduction that gives you the lowdown on how to start and a few tips, we go straight into the tutorials in bite-sized chapters of approximately 15 – 18 signs per tutorial, giving you the flexibility to stop and start wherever you choose. There are also signed versions of popular nursery rhymes, as most children love to combine signing with music.    Read more »

Australian Communication Exchange is running a free trial called Web Captioned Telephony.

With Web Captioned Telephony, a person makes a phone call using their normal phone but they also use a computer to read what the other person is saying.    Read more »

We found an interesting website called Signed Stories. Please click this link to go to the website: www.signedstories.com

The website has lots of books signed in British Sign Language with English subtitles.  Hearing family and friends can also listen to the stories.  It may be a fun way to improve your child's literacy!

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2009 Winter edition of Flying Kites, a Deaf Children Australia newsletter, features the theme of mental health and wellbeing in the lead up to the 4th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness hosted in Brisbane in October this year.

Packed with news, stories, and other interesting information, Flying Kites is a great read for families!    Read more »

Here we have listed links to websites that you might find useful. Please visit our del.icio.us page to see more links.    Read more »

At Deaf Children Australia our vision is “A life to be Lived”.

We aim to provide children and families with opportunities and skills to face life’s challenges and to celebrate their potential.    Read more »