It’s important to remember that you should only learn Auslan from someone who is Deaf.

There are some beginners courses here:

And Hadley Johnson also does online courses through their service Open That Door. They have some for beginners and some for TAFE students. It’s a good idea to keep updated on their Humanitix profile (accessed through their website) to keep up to date.

There are more services out there! These are just the few that I know to get started with.

Books

Future Girl by Asphyxia, from the publisher’s website:

Future Girl explores what it means to come of age as a Deaf teenager, against the backdrop of a near-future Melbourne on the brink of environmental catastrophe.

Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food.

When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a new world - where Deafness is something to celebrate rather than hide, and where resilience is created through growing your own food rather than it being delivered on a truck.

As she dives into learning Auslan, sign language that is exquisitely beautiful and expressive, Piper finds herself falling hard for Marley. But Marley, who has grown up in the Deaf community yet is not Deaf, is struggling to find his place in the hearing world. How can they be together?

Future Girl is the art journal of sixteen-year-old Piper, a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage and drawings, woven into a deeply engaging coming-of-age story set in near-future Melbourne.

I want to make a list of stories that have Auslan in them, but only know of these so far:

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