The client signs HOUSE · FIGHT · MAN and the lawyer wants a plea.
The registrar charts HALLUCINATIONS from an ambiguous sign.
The planner reads a nod as CONSENT.
Auslan interpreters meet language deprivation constantly, and almost none of us were trained for it.
This one-day program closes that gap.
WHY THIS MATTERS
You may be the only person in the room who can recognise it.
~70%
of Deaf children experience some degree of language deprivation.
US National Association of the NAD
8.7%
of families with a Deaf child use Auslan at home.
Howell et al., 2024, Victoria.
5
case-based activities with scripts you rehearse aloud.
Susan, James, Kevin, Angela, Daniel and Michelle.
Accuracy means preserving the client's communication, not cleaning it up.
A SINGLE FULL-DAY COURSE
The morning builds recognition.
The afternoon builds response.
The morning: recognition.
The afternoon: response.
- What LDS is, the critical period, and the Australian context.
- The features, mild to severe: telegraphic signing, echolalia, acquiescence.
- Why dysfluency is mistaken for psychiatric disorder, and what to preserve.
- The cleanup exercise: what disappears when we tidy a client's signing.
- The ASLITA Code under pressure: accuracy, impartiality, competence.
- Demand-Control Schema and the four voicing strategies.
- The Deaf Interpreter: when and how to advocate.
- PSIBP briefing routine, legal and mental-health simulations, exact words.
1 Foundations
2 Recognising LDS
3 Ways of working
4 High-stakes settings
5 Self-care and advocacy