RDLO & DCO National Website provides information for young people with a disability who are moving from school into tertiary education in Australia. It has information for the students, parents and teachers.
Disability Discrimination Legal Centre is a free legal service that focuses on cases of discrimination, especially when the outcome of the case will benefit other members of a disability group, in addition to the individual.
For an overview of the VET sector, go to Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
For information regarding apprentices and trainees, including information on how to contact a Field Officer, go to the Skills Victoria, Apprentices and Trainees webpage. For other information about VET training in Victoria, go to Skills Victoria.
Adult, Community and Further Education (ACFE) also provides training to adults.
Further information about apprenticeships is available from Group Training Victoria.
The network of Neighbourhood Houses provides community-based training.
Information about deafness and hearing loss from RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People) in the UK.
Planning Guide for People with a Disability or Medical Condition (Word doc) created by Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training.
VCOD is a deaf run advocacy and information organisation.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) can help you if you feel you have been discriminated against and want to make a complaint under the Disability Discrimination Act.
Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria can help you if you feel you have been discriminated against and want to make a complaint under the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act. The site also has information about Disability Standards for Education.
A few examples of the types of sites that a Google search finds when using key words such as "deaf nurse" or "deaf police officers " are:
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/ is a useful site with multiple links relating to information about deafness, communication choices, technology, educational needs as well as information on student transition to tertiary education.
http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/ provides information about research done in the USA into the English literacy levels of deaf children.
http://www.ndcs.org.uk/applications/discussion/ is a UK site that provides information to parents about parenting a deaf child.
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfotoGo/563.html is a US site that provides information on parenting a deaf child.
Information about the English literacy and learning needs of deaf students from Rochester Institute of Technology (USA).
