In July 2000 the Deafchild International team attended the 19th International Congress on Education of the Deaf in Sydney, Australia where they presented a paper entitled "The Deafchild International Website and Information and Communications Technology as an educational and learning tool to develop deaf children's literacy and communication skills".

Abstract from this paper: "�The paper gives an overview of the work carried out by the Deafax, under projects entitled Deafchild UK and Deafchild International. During the past 9 years over 7000 deaf children in the UK have benefited from Deafchild UK telecommunication programmes which are sponsored by the BBC Children in Need Appeal. Learning technologies have emerged rapidly in recent years due to the Internet and other technologies being more widely available to all, including deaf children. To encourage all deaf children to communicate using technology and to imporve their literacy, Deafchild International was set up with sponsorship from Cable & Wireless plc. This paper highlights the need for discussions on the positive use of Learning Technologies between different countries where deaf children share similar communication and literacy challenges�".