The draft program has now been released. Click here - ANC 2012 Draft program - to download a copy.
For information about the pre & post conference tours please click here.
The ASLIA National Conference Keynote Presenter is Professor Bencie Woll, from University College London (UCL).
Professor Bencie Woll holds the Chair in Sign Language and Deaf Studies at UCL and is Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, the largest research group in this field in Europe. Her research and teaching interests embrace a wide range of topics related to sign language, including the linguistics of British Sign Language (BSL), the history and sociolinguistics of BSL and the Deaf community, the development of BSL in young children, sign language and the brain, and developmental and acquired sign language impairments. She co-authored Sign Language: the study of Deaf People and their Language with Jim Kyle, and The Linguistics of BSL: an Introduction with Rachel Sutton-Spence, which was the winner of the 1999 Deaf Nation Award and 2000 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize.
The theme for ANC2012 is “Rediscovering our roots: Shaping our future”
2012 marks the 21st anniversary of the foundation of Australian Sign Language Interpreters’ Association. It is rather fitting then that the Annual National Conference 2012 is being held in Adelaide, the very birthplace of the Association. ANC 2012 offers the opportunity for members to reflect and honour the dreams and visions of the founding members and office bearers who planted the seeds that enabled the ‘roots’ of association to grow and take shape. Our association and profession has undergone many changes and directions over the past 21 years. ANC2012 is therefore an occasion for all past and present members to reflect on how these early ‘roots’ helped to shape our profession and how we can continue to shape and mould our future as we move towards the next 21 years of ASLIA.
