The official website for Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (Australia) Inc.
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Want to make a complaint about lack of captions on a DVD? Have you ever been frustrated that a DVD you really
wanted to watch turned out to have no subtitles??
Don't get mad, get even!! Media Access Australia has just released a new online DVD complaints form, which sends an email directly to AVSDA. AVSDA is a company that ensure all DVDs sold by different distributors in Australia have captions. Follow this link for details. If the complaints form doesn't work for you - simply email AVSDA direct - access@avsda.com.au Read the full article here. WHO CARES ABOUT CAPTIONS ON TV? Do you care about captions on TV? If you do, read on. Channel 9 over the month of November have dropped the amount of captions (hours per week) in the 6am to midnight slot to just 57.5% of programs (compared to 83.7 % around 4 months ago). Channel 9 ceased to caption Mornings with Kerri-Anne (2 hours each weekday), Fresh Cooking with the Australian Women's Weekly (30 mins), Days of Our Lives (30 mins) and Antiques Roadshow (1 hour). They also have two daytime shows that started recently that are not being captioned: The View (1 hour) and Ellen DeGeneres (1 hour). This is a terrible situation and shows that they are holding the deaf and hearing impaired communities in contempt. We need you to show that you will not be treated this way. If you care about captions please write to us and we will present your views in a petition to Channel 9 to ask them to caption the programs they used to caption, and add the two daytime shows, The View and Ellen DeGeneres. Just reply to this message with your comments. Please pass on to as many people as possible. Email us at info@deafnessforum.org.au If you don't care about captions, why should they? Nicole Lawder Chief Executive Officer Deafness Forum of Australia 218 Northbourne Avenue Braddon ACT 2612 Phone 02 6262 7808 TTY 02 6262 7809 Fax 02 6262 7810 Mob 0404 037 177 email: nicole.lawder@deafnessforum.org.au www.deafnessforum.org.au www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au The latest issue of "Hearing Matters" is now out! This issue (November 2008) features a cautionary article on cheap mail order hearing aids, a look at "fashion accessory" hearing aids, and articles on hearing impairment issues in big cities, on trains and in the workplace. There is also a look at Phonak's "Hear the World" awareness campaign which has many very well known "ambassadors" in the entertainment business. Plus much more. See here for how to subscribe. More News . . .
Deaf Children Australia will be hosting the 4th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness in October 2009 in Brisbane. View the flyer here.
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Looking Back . . . Aug-Oct 08: Free arts workshops for 12-18 year old deaf people in Melbourne. Click here for details. Sept 08: "Hear For You" information session for parents of deaf & hearing impaired children in the Sydney region. Aug 08: SHHH Hearing Awareness Week event: Free hearing tests by Macquarie University Audiology students. (Details here and pictures below). Aug 08: North Sydney TAFE course on Microsoft Office for deaf & hearing impaired. Details here. June 08: Merringong Theatre in Wollongong introduces captioning. Details here. Aug 07: SHHH produce a TV ad for Hearing Awareness Week 2007. See it here. June 07: Review of the Invisible Handicap Training Package. _______________________________________ Pictures from the SHHH Hearing Awareness Week event at Pennant Hills Community Centre, August 2008
 SHHH volunteers Chris and Jan (left) at the SHHH information stall with a trainee audiologist  A trainee audiologist waits for his next customer |
