Dave Carter
Dave was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at an early age and was thereafter enrolled at The Shepherd Centre in Darlington, Sydney.
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 fourth year of his degree, Dave was selected for the Honours Programme with a Distinction for an 11,000 word thesis on Animation.
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 3 years of study, Dave progressively expanded his animation repertoire, ready to be launched after the completion of studies.
Since late 2006, Dave's work has been commissioned for MTV, Mike 'Beavis and Butthead' Judge, Sony BMG and Comedy Central, and his shorts have been screened in numerous film festivals, from Sydney Film Festival to Annecy International Animation Film Festival and a complete retrospective in Slovakia. Rave reviews about Dave's animations have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People, and Time Out magazine. A number of Dave’s animations are included in the National Film and Sound Archives for preservation.
Dave is now a bilateral cochlear implant user thanks to the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre. He enjoys mentoring the Hear For You participants, showing them that deafness is not an obstacle.
