Interview - Shawn Phua - Deaf Culture & Accessibility - Raise The Platform

15/03/2023 24 min
Interview - Shawn Phua - Deaf Culture & Accessibility - Raise The Platform

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Raise The Platform podcasts are back! This episode features RTP Executive Producer Imi interviewing Shawn Phua. Go to this link to read the transcript of this interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ov5pa8Y3wxlSwY4Gt2asqQqa9qAaKms/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106161155725293630716&rtpof=true&sd=true  Shawn Phua is a profoundly Deaf young man and an Australian citizen of Malaysian-Chinese cultural backgrounds. He has lived experience of Deaf Culture and still learning more about the Hearing Culture. He can communicate in written English, Australian Sign Language (Auslan), Australian Signed English, Malaysian Sign Language (BIM) and Singaporean Sign Language (SgSL). His personal interests are LEGO bricks, learning foreign Sign Languages and disability inclusion and diversity.  Shawn & Imi discuss work and disability, advocacy, accessible communication, global sign languages and more! Shawn requested that we include these links:https://www.aussiedeafkids.org.au/terminology-for-deafness.htmlhttp://www.aussiedeafkids.org.au/deaf-culture.html This episode was originally aired on Saturday March 4th 2023 (4pm - 5pm). -- You can find out more about Raise The Platform on our website - http://syn.org.au/show/raise-the-platform/  For more info, or to join the show, email Raise The Platform’s Facilitator. Is Hay – [email protected] to SYN: http://syn.org.au/donate-to-syn/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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