Colin Allen AM 🏳️🌈🇦🇺 @ColinAllenAM
Director, International Organizational Leadership & Management Training Projects @RITNTID, WFD Honorary President @WFDeaf_org, & Honorary Chair @IDA_CRPD_Forum colinallenam.com.au Cambodia Joined May 2013-
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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
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
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
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
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!
Day 3️⃣ of Shitbox Rally — Last time Ambassador Kennedy visited Uluṟu, she was with U.S. Secretary of the Interior @SecDebHaaland, the first Native American Cabinet-level secretary in our history. This time, she’s with Team Moonshot — Shannon and Lu — and @BoxRallies!
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…
Special thank you to my 5 new followers from France, and more last week. fedica.com/!ColinAllenAM
Honoured to have presented to the Organisations of Persons with Disabilities Network meeting in Cambodia about the CRPD State and Shadow Reports process hosted by @OHCHR_Cambodia

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