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Ai-Media announces unique new service for deaf students

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Deafness services innovator Ai-Media today launched ‘Ai-Live’, a world-first service that provides live captioning of classes to deaf and hearing impaired students in mainstream schools, at the Sixth National Deafness Summit in Sydney. The service, combined with the technologies used in Media Access Australia’s Classroom Access Project pilot, means that deaf students in Australian schools could soon experience full access in mainstream Australian schools.

The Hon Bill Shorten MP, Parliamentary Secretary of Disabilities and Children’s Services, attended the launch, and delivered the keynote address of the Summit on inclusion of people with a disability, where he empathised “with the frustration of parents [of children with disabilities] who know their kids could learn so much more with extra resources”.

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Education

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Human Rights Commission releases submissions to the subscription television exemption application

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The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has released submissions to the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association’s (ASTRA) application on minimum captioning requirements. The application, if accepted, would make ASTRA exempt from complaints under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act (Cth) (DDA) in exchange for undertaking to increase the level of captioning on subscription television.

The AHRC has released submissions from Media Access Australia, the Deafness Council of Western Australia (DCWA), Vision Australia, the Deafness Forum of Australia, the Disability Discrimination Legal Service (Victoria) (DDLS), Deaf Australia and Accessible Arts NSW.  To read the submission, go to the AHRC website.

To read summaries of these submissions, visit our enquiries and consultations section.

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Australian policy and legislation
AHRC, Australian Human Rights Commission
Deaf or hearing impaired
ASTRA, Australia Subscription Television and Radio Association
Research & policy
Subscription TV
Temporary exemption application

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Autism app helps communication

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Australian-born Lisa Domican, who now lives in Ireland, has developed a communication application for the iPhone to help her autistic daughter communicate when out and about. The application provides pictures for common words and concepts that her daughter Grace (which the app is named after) uses to build sentences.

Based on the Picture Exchange Communications System (PECS) which uses photos  that are velcroed together to make phrases and sentences, the electronic adaptation of the system is more portable. The touch-screen of the iPhone is essential as it mimics the PECS system.

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Equipment

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