Tradeblock Cafe aims to break down barriers by encouraging hearing customers to communicate with Deaf employees in Auslan.
Rafael Billamer's world was largely silent until he was eight years old.
Spending his early childhood in the Philippines as the only Deaf member of his family, he had no-one to teach him how to communicate in Filipino sign language.
“I had hearing aids from the age of about six,” the 18-year-old told SBS News using Australian sign language, known as Auslan.
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