Medical Signbank: sign language planning and development in interpreter-mediated medical and mental health care delivery for deaf Australians

学术语言学家、翻译服务提供者、卫生保健提供者、手语翻译和聋人社区之间的这种合作将改善最近的倡议，使聋人平等地获得卫生保健服务。聋人第一次能够及早有效地获得医疗服务，改善了治疗结果，而且重要的是，能够从一开始就预防疾病的发生，或者在病情变得更严重、对个人和社区造成更大损失之前进行早期干预。因此，该项目将为国家带来利益，因为来自澳大利亚各地的所有利益相关者都将能够访问医疗标识库资源。

This collaboration between academic linguists, interpreter service providers, health care providers, sign language interpreters, and the Deaf community will improve the recent initiatives to give deaf people equity in their access to health care services. For the first time, deaf people are able to access medical services early and effectively, improving treatment outcomes and, importantly, preventing conditions occurring in the first place or allowing early intervention before they become much more serious and costly to the individual and the community. This project will therefore be of national benefit, as all stakeholders from all over Australia will be able to access the Medical Signbank resource.