Getting a class of primary school students to sit in silence for 45 minutes sounds like a tough ask. But when Simone Xirakis tells her students to turn their "voices off", they are happy to oblige.

Doctors don’t just examine bodies—they also decode language. And some words and phrases make them lean in, ask more questions, and rethink what might be going on. A clear, detailed conversation with a ...

The chief executive and founder of a Melbourne Auslan teaching company has admitted sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Darren Roberts, 54, was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. EVERYONE: Hi BTN. AMBER: My name is Amber, and this is my sign name. AUDREY: My name is Audrey. BIDHAN: ...

Auslan sign language is emerging as one of the most popular new language options in primary schools – but we’re running out of teachers despite TAFE enrolments soaring. Auslan is emerging as the ...

Abstract: This paper presents an automatic Australian sign language (Auslan) recognition system, which tracks multiple target objects (the face and hands) throughout an image sequence and extracts ...

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry on with their business. But when something out of the ...

'Pash rash', 'strain the potatoes', 'no wuckers' are just a few of the new Australian English words added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED, which is widely regarded as the accepted authority ...

The sessions, held by Deaf Connect, will run on the second Saturday of each month at Citylibraries Flinders Street starting on Saturday April 13, to coincide with Auslan Day. The Storytime sessions ...

In a video recorded at one of pop superstar Pink’s Sydney shows last weekend, a woman is giving the crowd an incredibly slick, high-energy performance of the singer’s 2001 hit Get the Party Started.