This paper argues the National Disability Insurance Scheme must enhance collaboration with participants, local communities and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, disability service providers, and the wider health system, to develop more locally led solutions that empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deaf or Hard of Hearing participants to achieve better outcomes.

This report recommends ways to remove barriers from current law and practice that prevent Victorians who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, from serving as jurors.

This project aimed to understand what helps, and what makes it hard for First Nations NDIS participants who are deaf or hard of hearing, to use their NDIS plans in a way that meet their needs and aspirations.

This report draws upon the literature to determine the economic benefits of Auslan. The report employs a cultural linguistic lens to consider the capability benefits afforded to users of Auslan associated with Auslan access, exposure, and usage. The report then estimates the capability benefits of Auslan, through capability enrichment, where increased capabilities result in the...

This report considers the economic benefits of Auslan accounting for the critical benefits to wellbeing, health literacy, services access, and the productivity of the economy. The research seeks to account for the benefits associated with Auslan as a community-enabling and culturally supportive language. The report finds the impacts of deafness and hearing loss may be...