Auslan #5
Channel: CAIRNS WEST STATE SCHOOL
Date: 10/02/2021

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Ms Trish teaches Mr Maree some signs in Auslan. 

Auslan is the name used for Australian Sign Language, the primary or preferred language of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is a visual, gestural language that occurs in three-dimensional space and uses signs, non-manual features, and highly complex and nuanced visual structures to represent concepts, in the same way that spoken language uses words to represent concepts. Signed languages have their own grammar and lexicon which are not based on the spoken language of the country or region although they are influenced by them. Did you know there are different dialects of Auslan in Australia or that different countries across the world have their own sign languages? Over the years, a number of Cairns West students have used Auslan and Ms Trish works at the school as an Educational Interpreter