Statewide Practice Sharing Day - 10 October 2025

Celebrate Excellence in Deaf Education across Victoria Statewide Practice Sharing Day

Description

The Victorian Deaf Education Institute is proud to partner with AATD Victoria and the passionate and innovative Educators of the Deaf across Victoria.

In the past 12 months, many of our educators presented at the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2025) in Rome and at the Australia and New Zealand Conference for Educators of the Deaf (ANZCED 2024). Now, we’re excited to bring that brilliance home.

Join us for a Statewide Practice Sharing Day, where we’ll showcase some of these inspiring presentations and foster rich professional dialogue. This is a unique opportunity to connect, share, and grow together as a community of practice.

🎤 Presented by educators, for educators

🤝 Collaborate, exchange ideas, and be inspired

Slide deck

Assessment of complex language in deaf children - Sharon Klieve

Empowering Inclusion - Deaf Education within our school community - Lynda Exell Julianne Impey & Jenny Galloway

The association between early life access to communication and mental health - Ramas McRae

Visiting Teachers of the Deaf and Reading Support: Views, Knowledge and Practices - Sharron Woolfe

Deaf Role-Models for Deaf Children in Hearing Families: A Scoping Review - Angela Joy

Preliminary data regarding emerging lexicons in children who are deaf and hard of hearing in Australia - Erin West

Comparison of an Auslan expressive sample with the MacArthur Bates - Shani Dettman

Victorian College for the Deaf Explicit Direct Instruction - the pedagogy game changer & Bilingual STEAM Education: A Two-Way Partnership - Marnie Kerridge & Robert Harrow