Auslan Signs for First Aid: A quick Referencer

New edition released Feb 2025

When someone is injured or ill, communication can be difficult. This book seeks to minimize these issues through the elimination of any additional communication barriers that may arise when the person needing care uses Auslan as their primary means of communication.

This book should be at ever school and workplace reception, doctors surgery and in ER's and ambulances.

Updates bring this inline with St Johns First aid vocabulary and assessments.

The book is presented under sections for quick access in an emergent situation:

• Step 1: Find out the problem

• Step 2: Treatment

  • Treating Minor Problems
  • Treating an Emergency

• Step 3 Getting Help

  • Professional Helpers
  • Calling Family and Friends

• Abilities and Assistive Devices

• Auslan Alphabet

Step 1 : Find out the problem

This section helps you ask question to determine the problem. It includes

• Question signs,
• Body locations
• general problems,
• Illness, Injury,
• Allergy and Breathing, and
• Severity of Symptom

 

Step 2 : Treatment

This section has vocab related to treating the issue from washing wounds and placing bandaids, through to CPR, EpiPens and more serious interventions

 

Step 3 : Getting Help

Here we help you reassure the patient and let them know which professionals are coming, OR get information from them about Family or Friends to contact

 

Abilities and assistive Devices

Here we explore signs associated with determining if someone can walk, see and so on and what assistive devices they may need from glasses to walking frames.

Auslan Alphabet Chart on the back for fingerspelling help.

 

Quick facts
Dimensions:21 x 14.5 mm (A5)
Authors/Illustrators Bilby, Lee
Publication Date of the Edition February 2025
First Date of Publication June 2010
Format Dictionary/Reference
No of Pages 36