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The International Symbol for Deafness is a registered trademark in Australia, held by the Deafness Forum Limited. This provides various rights to the Deafness Forum including the right to license or sell the symbol use within Australia for the goods and services for which it is registered.
The Deafness Forum encourages the correct use of the Symbol to identify and promote venues that provide hearing augmentation or access. Wherever possible the Symbol is to be accompanied by an explanatory caption, indicating the location and types of hearing augmentation.
While primarily intended to identify the existence of assistive listening systems (induction loops, FM and infrared), the International Symbol for Deafness also may be used to identify the existence of other forms of hearing access. For example the symbol may be used on material that identifies a Deaf or hearing impaired person and indicates a need for special communication tactics. Another example could be that staff at a facility have undergone training in communication tactics for Deaf and hearing impaired people. There are, however, alternative symbols that can and should be used to identify such facilities as TTYs and Auslan interpreters.
