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Learn Auslan, Deaf awareness training, hard-of-hearing awareness training, online learning and much more
Learn some handy Auslan basics including alphabet, numbers and phrases.
Awareness training provides opportunities to be more inclusive and accessible to deaf and/or hard-of-hearing people at work, socially or in the mainstream community.
Auslan, like all sign languages, is a visual form of language. Auslan users rely on hand and body movements of the signer to communicate and make different grammatical structures.