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DVDs celebrate Deaf students' success

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Griffith University has produced a set of four DVDs, Signs of Success, which look at the experiences and achievements of Deaf and hearing impaired students at the university, and the support services provided to them there.

The DVDs feature interviews with students who talk about how they came to study at university, and how they fared after completing their studies. There are also interviews with service providers who work for the university’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Student Support Program (DSSP), and a documentary on the ‘Celebrating Success’ event held in 2006.

The DVDs have been captioned with funding from the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs’ Captioning Grant, which is administered by Media Access Australia.

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Building resilience in Deaf and hearing impaired students

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EDSA (Educators of Deaf Students Association) and the Deafness Centre, Children's Hospital Westmead, hosted a conference last week entitled ‘Building resilience in students and teachers’ at Rydges Hotel, Parramatta. Itinerant Teachers of the Deaf (ITODs) and other teachers working with Deaf and hearing impaired students were in attendance. The keynote speaker was Professor John Luckner, Visiting Fellow and expert in the field of deaf education from the School of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado, USA.

The focus on resilience for both students and teachers was of keen interest to the conference. The development of resilience in students who are Deaf or have hearing impairment has many positive and lifelong benefits. The conference presentations looked at these issues from several angles.

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Macquarie University Accessibility Unit in the spotlight

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The work of Macquarie University’s Accessibility Unit has been featured in an article, ‘Clearing a path to learning’, in the Sydney Morning Herald this week. The article outlines the wide range of support available to students with disabilities, including those with sensory impairment, provided by the unit.

The Accessibility Unit was developed in 2004 to provide students with a disability with the support needed to not only ‘pass’ a degree, but to be given the chance to excel. Each student is paired with an education developer who develops an individual action plan and liaises with relevant lecturers and tutors on the student’s behalf.

Support for students who are blind or have low vision includes the use of screen readers, screen reading software and the ‘DAISY’ digital talking book, which allows the user to navigate through a book’s contents as well as hearing it.

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Media Access Australia reviews the Draft National Curriculum

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Media Access Australia’s (MAA) education team has completed a review of the Draft National Curriculum, and Education Manager Anne McGrath recently spoke with Vision Australia Radio about the lack of accessibility considerations for students with sensory impairments.

The Federal Government’s Draft National Curriculum was released last month for public viewing and feedback, and will remain open until 23 May. The draft is comprehensive, covering the subjects of English, History, Maths and Science, and is available online.

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