Many people have lent their time and skills to the Auslan Signbank project. Here are some of the parties who have helped in making the Auslan Signbank a reality.

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC)

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children is proud to be part of Auslan Signbank.

The Telstra Foundation

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support from the Telstra Foundation to the Auslan Signbank project at Renwick College and to the family and parent's Auslan project at the Deaf Education Network.

Together the financial support to Renwick College and Deaf Education Network from Telstra has made Auslan Signbank possible.

Associate Professor Trevor Johnston

Auslan Signbank exists only through the existence of the Auslan lexical database which has been complied over the past two decades by Associate Professor Trevor Johnston, Renwick College, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

The Auslan database has previously been used to produce several editions of the dictionaries of Auslan ("Auslan Dictionary", "Signs of Australia", "Discovering Auslan", and "Survival Guide to Auslan"), in both book and CD-ROM formats, which have been published by North Rocks Press. All of these dictionaries have been authored, edited or co-edited by A/Prof. Johnston.

Auslan Signbank was conceived by him in 1996 but it is only now that improvements in technology and, most importantly, financial support has made it possible. The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children is proud to have supported his research into Auslan and in the development and publication of the Auslan dictionaries which has now culminated in Signbank.

The deaf community of Australia

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian deaf community in the Auslan research conducted at Renwick College. There could be no database of Auslan or Signbank without the help, enthusiasm and participation of deaf people and deaf community organizations across Australia.

The names of the many individuals who have helped over the years are far too many to list here but they can be found in the acknowledgements to the various dictionaries that have grown out of the Auslan lexical database: "Auslan Dictionary", "Signs of Australia", "Discovering Auslan", and "Survival Guide to Auslan".

With Signbank, the participation of the deaf community in an ongoing manner will be even more important. The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children wishes to thank the Australian deaf community in advance for sharing its knowledge and language.

Cubic Consulting

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children thanks Cubic Consulting for developing Signbank. Their programmers and web designers have brought ideas into reality. Cubic Consulting can be contacted at: 259 George St, Level 29 NSW 2000 or visit www.cubiconsulting.com.au.