[Slling-l] Fwd: Superlinguo

[Mark Mandel]

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Drisana Levitzke-Gray, Sign Language advocate, named Young Australian of
the Year
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Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST

We are absolutely thrilled that Drisana Levitzke-Gray was named Young
Australian of the Year earlier this week.

Drisana has done amazing work promoting the importance of Auslan in
Australia, and Sign Language all over the world.The awards website
<http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1253>
gives you an idea of her amazing work - here are a couple of excerpts:

The fifth generation in her family to be born deaf, Drisana Levitzke-Gray,
is dedicated to helping other deaf people and advocating their human
rights.

She promotes the deaf community as one without borders and one of rich
language, culture, history and traditions. As the only Australian selected
to attend the Frontrunners international deaf youth leadership course in
2012 and 2013, Drisana worked with communities in Europe and Samoa to
expand leadership capacity and human rights understanding of deaf youth.  I

Drisana is the embodiment of the concept of ‘deaf gain’, not ‘hearing
loss’, inspiring the deaf community, encouraging others to accept diversity
and promoting a positive image of deafness which says loudly and proudly:
“it is OK to be deaf”.

Drisana was the first Auslan user to participate in jury duty
<http://deafaustralia.org.au/first-deaf-person-to-take-part-in-the-jury-process/>
in Australia - deaf people have been historically excluded from this civic
role. It’s great that there are passionate and committed people like
Drisana challenging these perceptions.

Applause Auslan-style for the fabulous Drisana Levitzke-Grey at the
Australian of the Year ceremony (photo from the ABC
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-28/congratulations-drisana-levitzke-grayjpg/6049160>
):

Drisana has a YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/Drizzy28> channel where
you can follow some of her adventures. We hope this inspires you to learn
Auslan finger spelling <http://www.auslan.org.au/spell/twohanded.html> or
maybe a few key phrases <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No3VegLU1iA> -
perhaps this is the year to take and Auslan short course!
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