Deaf Connect

deafconnect.org.au

Deaf Connect is the largest deaf services organisation in Australia and runs the country's best known Auslan courses for adults, from short taster workshops to accredited units for people heading towards interpreting. Classes are led by deaf teachers, offered as live online groups and in person in several cities, and workplace training can be arranged for teams. Because the organisation also provides interpreting and community services, the teaching sits close to the real deaf community rather than in a vacuum.

For anyone in Australia with a deaf relative, client or student, this is the obvious first stop, and the live format gives the two way practice recorded courses cannot. Cost per term is noticeably higher than a video subscription, terms follow a set calendar, and Auslan is of little use to someone who actually needs ASL or BSL. Places in popular evening classes fill early.