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RIDBC 150th anniversary

  • Generic RIDBC CSA (2011)
    Generic RIDBC community service announcement
  • 150th anniversary video (2010)
    Special 150th anniversary video featuring UK television personality Sir Michael Parkinson.
  • Helen Keller historical footage (1948)
    If you love watching footage from the past, watch this original newsreel from 1948 when Helen Keller, the first deafblind person taught to communicate, visits RIDBC (then known as the School for Deaf Children at Darlington and the School for Blind Children at Wahroonga).

Media segments

  • Music: Count Us In video (2010)
    Students at the RIDBC Thomas Pattison School (A school for Bilingual Deaf Children) performing Music: Count Us In song 'Come Play Your Part'.
  • Music: Count Us In video (2007)
    Students at the RIDBC Thomas Pattison School (A school for Bilingual Deaf Children) signed up to be a part of Count Us In, an initiative of the Music Council of Australia for the promotion of music in schools nationally.
  • TTN video (2007)
    To celebrate 2007 NSW Education week, The RIDBC Teleschool and RIDBC Thomas Pattison School (A school for Bilingual Deaf Children) were profiled on Channel 10's TV news program, TTN.
  • Talk to the animals video (2008)
    Scruffy is a star recruit for RIDBC, and now makes regular preschool visits to provide his own canine ‘language’ lessons. With such a unique role at RIDBC, Scruffy was recently featured in an episode of Talk to the Animals.

RIDBC services

  • RIDBC Teleschool video (2007)
    RIDBC Teleschool provides high quality educational services to children with hearing and/or vision impairment living in regional or rural Australia.

Children on RIDBC services

  • Jesse from RIDBC Teleschool video (2007)
    Three-year-old Jesse is profoundly deaf and lives in Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory. Through regular videoconferences, RIDBC Teacher/Consultant, Lynne Richards, works to develop Jesse’s speech and language.
  • Moana from RIDBC VisionEd video (2007)
    Six-year-old Moana is blind. Using only her sense of touch, Moana completes a complex tactile puzzle. A significant challenge to complete without sight, these puzzles help to develop many of Moana's skills.
  • Chelsea video (2007)
    Five-year-old Chelsea has been blind since birth. She relies heavily on her sense of touch and her grasp of language to identify the objects around her.