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The deaf community in Australia is a diverse cultural and linguistic minority group. Deaf communities have many distinctive cultural characteristics, some of which are shared across many different countries. These characteristics include language, values and behaviours. The Australian deaf community relies primarily on Australian Sign Language ...
Deaf Sports Australia (DSA), formerly known as Australian Deaf Sports Federation, is the national governing body of Deaf Sports in Australia. The organisation was established in Adelaide during the 1954/55 Australian Deaf Carnival in January 1955 and it joined the Comite International des Sports des Sourds (CISS) in the same year.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics included Auslan as an option for the first time in the 2021 census when asking which language was used at home. [91] [92] According to the census, it is the main language of about 16,000 deaf people. [92]
Drisana Levitzke-Gray (born 1993 [1]) is an Australian disability rights campaigner from Perth, Western Australia. She is an advocate for deaf culture , and a native speaker of Auslan . [ 2 ] In 2015, she was the Young Australian of the Year .
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Deaf Children Australia (DCA) is a national not-for-profit organisation that supports deaf and hard-of-hearing children and young people and their families in Australia. DCA was established in 1862 to meet the needs of deaf children and their families. DCA is housed in the Bluestone Building, built in 1866, in the Victorian capital of Melbourne ...
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Dean Bryan Barton-Smith, AM (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian former decathlete who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1] He also won medals at the Deaflympics in 1989, 1993 and 2005. [2] Barton-Smith is most noted for his work and advocacy with the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations, Deaf Sports Australia and the ...