Dave Carter
Dave Carter was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at an early age and was thereafter enrolled at The Shepherd Centre in Darlington, Sydney. Dave is now a bilateral cochlear implant user thanks to the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre.
At 3 years of age, speech specialists determined that Dave would never talk, would always remain at the reading level of a 7 year old, and would require sign language for communication due to Dsypraxia combined with deafness. Dave's determined mother, Glenda took him to Canada to join Judy Simser's Auditory-Verbal Programme for Children at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Using the Auditory-Verbal method, Dave and his mother worked on his speech three times daily until he reached age 13.
After completing his HSC at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) with itinerant support from RIDBC, Dave undertook a Bachelor of Design at the University of Western Sydney with a major in Animation. In his 4th year of his degree, Dave was the only second animator selected for the Honours Programme with a Distinction for an 11,000 word thesis.
Following graduation, Dave began his second degree in a Bachelor of Arts with a Film Studies major at the University of New South Wales. During the next three years of study, Dave progressively expanded his animation portfolio, ready to be launched after the completion of studies.
At the end of 2006, Dave had a solo animation show at the Tap Gallery in Sydney to showcase films that he wrote, directed and produced himself. Since then he has been able to work on commissions as an independent animator for international film festivals as well as for Comedy Central and MTV. In 2008, Dave travelled in the USA with his own serial for a touring theatrical animation show programmed by Mike Judge, the creator of 'Beavis and Butt-head'.
Recently in 2009, Dave directed and produced his first music video for an electro-rock band, it was Rage’s ‘Clip of the Week’ two weeks running, and received ‘special feature’ on Channel V and MTV with a hot thumbs-up review by host Ruby Rose.
Dave enjoys speaking to the Hear For You participants, showing them that deafness is not an obstacle.
