WHY LEARN AUSLAN?
Learning to communicate in Auslan is a fantastic way to make Deaf, hard of hearing and non verbal visitors feel welcome when they visit the Mount Barker District Council area.
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is designed for you to learn Auslan quickly and easily with each subject video no more than one minute each.
The course is divided into two parts.
First, are three grammar modules that give you a brief overview of how to use Auslan correctly in a grammatical way (I promise you it is bite size and not boring!)
Secondly, there are modules 1 to 8 which contain the teaching videos for each subject within the module. In each subject (family signs, for example) are three videos;
Video 1 - has 10 to 15 subject signs to learn
Video 2 - has 5 sentences to practice
Video 3 - has 10 signs from video 1 and video 2 for you to practice your receptive skills (no voice used by me in this video)
EACH VIDEO IS NOT MORE THAN ONE MINUTE IN DURATION
Example Curriculum
- Introduction to the MBDC Auslan Course (0:55)
- Notes on learning Auslan (1:22)
- Module A - Grammar structure in Auslan (0:43)
- Module B - Question and Statements in Auslan (1:35)
- Module C - HOLME and NMF in Auslan (2:08)
- 1.1 Auslan alphabet - right hand (1:03)
- 1.2 Auslan alphabet - left hand (0:56)
- 1.3 - Fingerspelling do's and don't's and tricky letters (0:57)
- 1.4 Fingerspelling receptive skills (0:48)
- 2.1 Question signs (0:30)
- 2.2 Question sentences (0:50)
- 2.3 Question signs receptive skill (0:29)
- 2.4 Customer service signs (0:37)
- 2.5 Customer service sentences (0:52)
- 2.6 Customer service receptive skills (0:31)
- 2.7 Depicting Signs (DS) (1:17)
- 2.8 Depicting Signs sentences (1:17)
- 2.9 Depicting Signs receptive skills (0:35)
- 2.10 Instruction signs (0:34)
- 2.11 Instruction signs sentences (1:10)
- 2.12 Instruction signs receptive skills (0:31)
- 3.1 Pleasantry signs (0:35)
- 3.2 Pleasantry signs sentences (1:01)
- 3.3 Pleasantry signs receptive skills (0:34)
- 3.4 Places in the community signs (0:47)
- 3.5 Places in the community sentences (1:13)
- 3.6 Places in the community receptive skills (0:33)
- 3.7 Deaf related signs (1:17)
- 3.8 Deaf related sentences (1:17)
- 3.9 Deaf related signs receptive skills (0:36)
- 4.1 Timeline signs (0:33)
- 4.2 Timeline signs sentences (1:20)
- 4.3 Timeline signs receptive skills (0:34)
- 4.4 Numbers 0-31 (2:56)
- 4.5 Money signs (0:30)
- 4.6 Money signs sentences (1:13)
- 4.7 Money signs receptive skills (0:35)
- 4.8 Morning tea signs (0:39)
- 4.9 Morning tea signs sentences (1:08)
- 4.10 Morning tea signs receptive skills (0:31)
- 5.1 In the workplace - People signs (0:39)
- 5.2 In the workplace - People signs sentences (1:09)
- 5.3 In the workplace - People signs receptive skills (0:34)
- 5.4 In the workplace - MBDC services signs (0:53)
- 5.5 In the workplace - MBDC services signs sentences (1:38)
- 5.6 In the workplace - MBDC services signs receptive skills (0:32)
- 5.7 In the workplace - Technology signs (0:40)
- 5.8 In the workplace - Technology signs sentences (1:39)
- 5.9 In the workplace - Technology signs receptive skills (0:36)
- 6.1 Family signs (0:40)
- 6.2 Family signs sentences (1:09)
- 6.3 Family signs receptive skills (0:31)
- 6.4 Social activities signs (0:35)
- 6.5 Social activities signs sentences (1:12)
- 6.6 Social activities signs receptive skills (0:30)
- 6.7 Emotion signs (0:37)
- 6.8 Emotion signs sentences (1:07)
- 6.9 Emotion signs receptive skills (0:34)
- 7.1 Colour signs (0:44)
- 7.2 Colour sign sentences (1:17)
- 7.3 Colour signs receptive skills (0:38)
- 7.4 Animal signs - Domestic (0:38)
- 7.5 Animal signs sentences (1:28)
- 7.6 Animal signs receptive skills (0:32)
- 7.7 Receptive skills activity (1:55)
- 8.1 MBDC services provided (1) (1:17)
- 8,2 MBDC services provided (2) (0:41)
- 8.3 MBDC requested signs and sentences from staff
- Thank you message (0:26)
AUSLAN MORNING TEA
As you begin to learn Auslan it is great to put it into practice amongst the staff learning. If you can occassionally, maybe once a week, have a Auslan morning tea at work or go out to a cafe for lunch or the pub for dinner and practice signing to each other WITHOUT VOICE!!
This will enable each staff member to practice their signs, practice fingerspelling and develop their receptive skills through watching someone sign and watching someone fingerspell.
Improvement of signing, receptive skills development and retention of the signs only comes through constant practice; even just 5 minutes a day is fantastic.
WHAT OTHER AUSLAN COURSES DO WE HAVE?
We have many Auslan courses and are constantly adding to our current list. Below are some courses that might be of interest to parents.
