Due to oralist policies, the use of AISL was discontinued as a language of instruction in the early 1950s.
There are now around 100 signers of this language, most of who are in their early seventies and onwards, though there may be younger CODAs.
The first schools for Deaf children were established in 1860 in both Sydney and Melbourne, however, the trajectory of BSL towards Auslan and that of ISL towards AISL differed.
[3] Both AISL and Auslan, however, stopped being used as languages of instruction after the disastrous Milan Congress of 1881, where by the 1950s, oralism cemented across Australia.
Since then, AISL has stopped being used in Deaf clubs or wider community settings, now only being used by small friend groups from the now-closed schools and between family members.