Fielding school for deaf closes
New Government policy on educating disabled children has ended more than three decades of teaching deaf children at St Dominic’s in Feilding.
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Unknown
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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1989-012
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Unknown, 1989
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1980
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
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Deaf Southern Star: 2014 (Vol. 36, No. 1)
2013
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Deaf Southern Star: 2013 (Vol. 35, No. 2)
2017
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
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1950
article – Taonga source: Zealandia
World Authorities Impressed by Catholic School for Deaf
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1987
video – Taonga source: Television New Zealand Archive
Parents speak of their fears for the future of St Dominic’s School for Deaf Children
Following the potential closure of St Dominic's, parents express their concerns at a community meeting for their deaf children’s future if they were to be mainstreamed into a local school.
1979
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
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1994
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
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1965
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Twenty-One Years: St Dominic’s at Feilding
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