Description
Are you learning Auslan at home to help communicate with children or beginner communicators in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)?
We have put together this home learning package to guide you step by step through a series of progressively more complex learning topics that begin with key word signing (single signs per sentence) up to full grammar and linguistics lessons
The Package is divided into 3 volumes:
Volume 1 - Auslan for beginners and children
You will start with basic topic based vocab learning, Farm animals for example, followed by a descriptive vocab group, like colours.
You then have what are called Bring-It-Together topics that join the previous 1-3 topics into simple sentences.
In this way you progressively worth through each of the following learning areas using
- online video play throughs and
- online game play to practice the vocab.
- Flashcard sets by topic that reflect the same signs covered within the course material, and
- a reference dictionary that includes the same topics
- Online based songs and stories that put the vocabulary into practice.
Part 1
- Farm Animals & Pets, joined with Colours
- Family and numbers
- Places around he school and playground
- Places at home
- Fruit break (blended with colour descriptors)
- Basic questions
- Who uses Sign Language and why
Part 2
- Birds & ocean creatures, blended with shapes, colour and basic animal descriptors
- At the circus
- Inside & outside play
- Furniture & appliances at home
- Vegetables
- Everyday and Important words
- Deaf famous people
Total vocab inc : 953 signs
Volume 2 - For intermediate communication
The extensive class plan is 443 pages and includes everything you need to progress through the learning topics through on and off line learning models.
The goal within these lessons is not just vocab building but also to explore linguistic concepts and really embark on information exchange and communication.
Every section includes a reference dictionary and tips on teaching/learning those signs, activities to use to reinforce the signs in a fun and engaging way. Every third section is a Bring-It-Together topic, that draws a naming topic with adjectives and verbs to extend communication, and introduce grammar and linguistics in a context.
Gradually moving the participants from naming everyday objects and people, to more complex communication
Specifically:
- Practice describing animals using 5-8 descriptors, inc. the use of the negative’ preposition.
- Use simple recipes in Auslan only as a path to food based communication.
- Practice describing family members in detail, including physical appearance, age and relationship to self.
- Explored formal vs informal communication for the first time, and looked at signing space and exaggeration
Through the main learning areas of:
- Insects and Reptiles
- Numbers 1-10
- Bring-It-Together - Which Animal Do You Like?
- Emotions and Feelings (basic)
- Bring-It-Together - How Are You and About Me
- Basic Measurements and Big Numbers
- Bring-It-Together - Let's Cook Something Easy
- My Family
- Describing People
- Bring-It-Together - About My Family
- Australian Animals
- Describing Animals (extended)
- Bring-It-Together - Which Animal Did That?
- Emotions and Feelings (Extended)
- Alphabet (Fingerspelling)
- Bring-It-Together - More About Me
- More Measurements, Fractions, Times & Dates
- Cooking Words
- Bring-It-Together - How Do You Cook That?
- Describing People (Extended)
- Occupations and Items at Work
- Bring-It-Together - What do you know about me?
Total signs introduced : 1055
Volume 3 - Advanced communication and linguistic concepts
*note this volume has just been updated and will ship in may 2026
Within the teaching guide you will find a lesson by lesson programs with enough time flexibility to accommodate slower or faster progress with all the information and notes you need to work through these stages into full Auslan communication in linguistic structure in a complex way.
There are theory and practical activities, assignments and exercises to reinforce learning as you go.
Main learning areas:
- Greetings and chit chat (including fingerspelling, dates days and months and weather)
- Modified descriptors
- Non-Manual features of Auslan
- Negative and reversal signs
- Role shift
- Timeline modifiers
- Classifiers
- Construct actions
- Complex story telling
- advanced descriptors
- advanced numbers
Online component
Video files are an integral part of this course, from stories, to example videos, as well as deaf community stories and narratives around the teaching themes
These are located on SignPlanet and you recieve 3 years access with this package for up to 2 simultaneous users.
Physical products included
Volume 1 to 3 of the lesson plans
The matching 4 volumes of dictionaries
The Full auslan Dictionary for teachers parents and professionals
The Volume 2 set of flashcards with Video of each sign
