Communicating from a silent world
Jenny Griffiths, the mother of two profoundly deaf children, talks about communicating with them in Total Communication.
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Taonga source:
The Dominion
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1987-002
Bibliographic source:
The Dominion, 15 January 1987, p.16
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