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In Australia deaf schools were established by educated deaf people from London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

This introduced the London and Edinburgh dialects of BSL to Melbourne and Sydney respectively and Irish Sign Language to Sydney in Roman Catholic schools for the deaf.

The language contact post secondary education between Australian ISL users and ' Australian BSL ' users accounts for some of the dialectal differences we see between modern BSL and Auslan.

Tertiary education in the US for some deaf Australian adults also accounts for some ASL borrowings found in modern Auslan.