Free Community Auslan Groups
Community Auslan Practice Group
REGISTER NOW for Term 4, 2024
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm, Thursdays during school term
Barkly Square Cafe, Barkly Square, Ballarat East.
Free! All welcome.
Join other community members for this informal group designed to encourage you to practise the basics of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) in a welcoming group setting. All levels welcome and voices are used to help clarify, support and encourage understanding Auslan.
NEW! "Voice Off" Auslan Practice Group
REGISTER NOW for 26 October and/or 30 November 2024
10.00 am - 11.30 am, last Saturday of every month (except December and January)
Sebastopol Library
Free! All welcome.
Are you interested in the challenge of another form of communication? Do you know a little Auslan? Are you learning Auslan? Are you fluent in Auslan? If you answered Yes to any of these questions please come along to our monthly social “Voice Off” group.
We welcome the Deaf Community, Hard of Hearing Community and the hearing community to come together and socialise. The Ballarat East Neighbourhood House will be hosting a Voice Off Session at the Sebastopol Library to support people wanting to communicate through Auslan (Australian Sign Language).
As suggested in the “Voice Off” name this is a no-voice event.
Please be aware that this activity of hosted by volunteers. They are Auslan Enthusiasts and lifelong learners. However, our volunteers are not fluent and may use a variety of signs. They are keen to learn more signs, adjust signs to community needs and further understand the culture of the language and people who use it. Feedback is welcome.
Deaf Awareness Training
The Ballarat East Neighbourhood House is working with Auslan In the West to provide Deaf Awareness Training to the Ballarat Community. Please note that there is a cost for this activity.
Community Auslan Courses
The Ballarat East Neighbourhood House hosts several Community Auslan Courses at Barkly Square, Ballarat East.
About Auslan
Auslan is Auslan is Australian Sign Language, the language of the Australian Deaf Community. Auslan is a distinct language, with its own grammar and syntax.
Sign languages have evolved across the world where Deaf people live, work and interact. It is an essential organic language. Deaf people born to Deaf parents will learn the language from birth, others later in life alongside their parents, at school or as adults. Increasingly the wider community is actively learning Auslan in order to communicate freely and directly with Auslan users.
(Source: Expression Australia)
Since 2022, the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House has been delivering Community Auslan courses, subsidised through State Government funding as part of the Adult and Community Further Education (ACFE) program in partnership with the Wendouree Neighbourhood Centre.
