Colin Allen AM 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺

Farewell Twitter! Thank you to my 7.4K followers since May 2013. Feel free to DM me.

Here's an update from us on our Language Comprehension in Deaf Children project. Please do get in touch with us if you want to know more about the project.

Congratulations to colleagues @drcastone @crathmann and Jeremie Segouat for securing funding for this important project on deaf interpreters! bbc.com/news/articles/…

The multi-funded project "Deaf access by Deaf people - Deaf mediators, interpreters and translators" will commence in February 2024 & led by @crathmann (@HumboldtUni), Jérémie Segouat (@CNRS) and @drcastone (@wlv_uni). @WASLI_tweets @efsli @efsliDI

@AusEmbPP Ambassador Yip, were Khmer Sign Language Interpreters at the Opening Ceremony? Cambodian Deaf Group seeks discussion on experiences of exclusion & inclusion from the general society in Cambodia. Please DM me! #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DeafCambodianRights

Great opening ceremony here in Phnom Penh for the Fourth National Games and Second National Para Games. A spectacle to witness. Congratulations to the organisers and all involved. Wishing the athletes every success!

WFD was in Italy for the #G7 on inclusion and disability, a gathering of the world's 7 top countries and other invited countries. 🌐 We took the opportunity to present the needs of our members, many national associations of the #deaf, to the leaders who were present.

The WFD President gave a presentation at Copels in Brazil. Over 800 participants attended the congress on Linguistics & Translation and Sign Languages. It was also an opportunity to meet the President of Feneis, the national association of the deaf and our Ordinary Member. 🇧🇷

New deadline for abstract submission: October, 15, 2024 iced2025.com

If you work in deaf education, sign language research, deaf studies or related fields please do consider submitting a paper. Please note the deadline is 30 October 2024

Happy International Day of Sign Languages! #IWDP #IWDP2024

@adamkosamep Congrats, Adam!

I am honoured to continue to serve my country, now as State Secretary for Disability, for the first time in the history of 🇭🇺! #PwD can count on me and the Government to continue and build on the work we have done so far, in partnership with stakeholders. #nothingaboutuswithoutus

Support training for deaf people from across the Caribbean! gofund.me/ee994c5d

Almost September… and the Global Deaf community is preparing to commemorate the International Week of the Deaf People… #SignLanguageRights @WFDeaf_org @drjosephjmurray @ColinAllenAM @MarkkuJokinen @IyuteDeborah

#Croatia is happy to participate at the #COSP17 #CRPD which opened this morning with, among others, a powerful speech by Sanja Tarczay from 🇭🇷, the President of the @WFDeafBlind!

Heartfelt congratulations to 🇯🇵 #Japan's candidate Mr. TAMON Hiroshi on being elected to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities #CRPD! Thank you to everyone for all your support!

🌸Meet Tamon Hiroshi, our 2024 #CRPD candidate!🌸 As a dedicated lawyer from #Japan 🇯🇵, he has been advocating the rights of persons with disabilities for years. His expertise & experience will be invaluable to the Committee.

@JoshuaCavallo ❤️❤️❤️

Such a Easter gift to receive the author’s copy of this important tome edited by @chrisdec71 @koen_kerremans huge thanks to them and my friends and coauthors @DebraRussell1 and @ColinAllenAM, and so honoured to be the chapter following @MarijaTodorova

Calls for more investment in #Auslan in Rockhampton for Deaf community (Queensland, Australia) abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2…