Overcoming the invisible handicap

Overcoming the invisible handicap

It takes only a few minutes in the company of Pat Dugdale to realise that she has a mischievous sense of fun. It’s almost as if she enjoys shocking people and then watching their reaction.

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Pat Dugdale

Taonga source:

Unknown

Reference number:

SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1985-019

Bibliographic source:

Unknown, 1985

Author:

Walter Huntley

Copyright status:

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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