Colin ALLEN
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As a deaf person who has used Australian Sign Language (Auslan) since birth, Colin has had the opportunity to advance the human rights of deaf people and more broadly people with disability. Since 2011, Colin has been a board member of the International Disability Alliance and is currently the Chair. He has also had extensive involvement with the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) since 2003 and in 2011 was appointed WFD President. His long involvement with local Deaf Community groups in Sydney commenced when he was 13 years old and includes serving as a board member of Deaf Australia from 1987-1999 and then President for a nine year period. Year of this biography:
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