[dbaust] Re: auslan kangan TAFE
- From: "Richard Howell" <r.mhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:03:18 +1000
Yes Heather
Shelley is horse lover and has few horses at her farm near Seymour, she told me
that she hates horse
race and rodeo because of cruel by whip and kick the spike cause horses to stir
up. She uses with
family for horses activities often.
She was my volunteer for Deafblind Camp at Yarra Junction last March and she
become confident after
I help her how to guide the deafblind.
She is active lady and positive way.
Thanks to Trudy to bring news from Seymour newspaper.
and Nina show me Geelong's "Advertiser" newspaper's article "Worrying Signs for
Deaf" yesterday I
missed out it's online so I will try to find if find and will send DBAust's.
Richard.
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From: dbaust-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dbaust-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Heather Lawson
Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012 9:40 AM
To: dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [dbaust] Re: auslan kangan TAFE
shelley is a volunteer for Able Aust. She volunteer for deafblind recreational
group too. Nice lady.
What can we do. They kept talkin gabout deafpeople deafpeople deafpeople but
on this article one
sentence about deafblind. Deaf people ;need to network with deafblind to
make sure both
community hav esame anguague ----- Original Message -----
From: Trudy <mailto:trudy.ryall@xxxxxxxxxxx> Ryall
To: sarujac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; hjlawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:42 AM
Subject: [dbaust] auslan kangan TAFE
JUNE 7, 2012
Cuts
<http://www.mmg.com.au/local-news/seymour/cuts-will-deny-deaf-a-voice-1.20010#>
will deny deaf
a voice
A dire shortage of interpreters is likely if a decision to cut the Auslan
training course stands, a
deaf Seymour woman says.
By Chalpat Sonti
The Seymour deaf community is warning of the consequences should a course that
trains sign language
interpreters be cut.
Kangan Institute of TAFE has announced it will axe the course due to Victorian
Government cuts to
the TAFE sector.
The course is a two-year full-time
<http://www.mmg.com.au/local-news/seymour/cuts-will-deny-deaf-a-voice-1.20010#>
diploma, one of
just two in Australia, and provides interpreters in the Victorian dialect of
Auslan.
The Victorian deaf community held a protest at Parliament House last week, and
among them was
Seymour woman Shelley Jensen-Solyon.
''We need interpreters,'' she said.
''If they close this course we can't go anywhere without an interpreter.''
Mrs Jensen-Solyon said there were just a handful of interpreters in North East
Victoria - none in
Seymour - and about 100 in Melbourne servicing deaf people.
The situation was already dire. She has been waiting two weeks for an
interpreter to be available so
she can go to a parent-teacher meeting at her child's school.
''If we need to go to hospitals or schools or anything like that we need an
interpreter,'' she said.
''We have deaf and blind
<http://www.mmg.com.au/local-news/seymour/cuts-will-deny-deaf-a-voice-1.20010#>
little kids who
need them as they grow up. They can't go to hospital without one.
''If there's an emergency we need one urgently. How will we call one if we need
one?''
Mrs Jensen-Solyon was due to attend another protest at parliament yesterday.
The Government further confused the situation last week when Higher Education
and Skills Minister
Peter Hall's office claimed it would offer subsidies to the Deaf Society of NSW
so that it could
offer Auslan training in Victoria.
However the NSW Deaf Society, which conducts Auslan training in that state in a
dialect with
significant differences, said it had never been contacted.
''The only role the Deaf Society of NSW wants to play in the Kangan crisis is
to support Kangan to
continue to provide its Auslan courses,'' it said.
Mr Hall then said he would work with Kangan TAFE and other providers to resolve
the matter.
From Seymour Telegraph
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