News & Events

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the Deaf community all over Australia, with many of us feeling cut off from one another due to lockdowns, social distancing and border closures.  We wanted to know what the Deaf community was really miss...

Deaf Services and the Deaf Society has recently completed reporting with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for the 2020/21 financial year.

Deaf Services and the Deaf Society encourage everyone to get vaccinated in line with advice from your State Health Department. To support this, we are giving away free face masks. To get yours, fill out the form here.

Raine Newport is a Support Worker based in Rockhampton and part of our Ageing Well team – Deaf Services and the Deaf Society’s aged care program.  

Vital in-person support has returned to the Fraser Coast Deaf community with the re-opening of Deaf Services and the Deaf Society’s Kathleen Costello Centre.

We are pleased to report that after meeting with state disability ministers, the Minister for the NDIS, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC announced that the trial of ‘independent assessments’ for NDIS partic...