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Signs break the ice

Lower Hutt’s Myra Sullivan showing hearing people how to use sign language at a workshop for the deaf held at Wellington College of Education yesterday.

Hearing people learned the frustrations and humiliation deaf people can face in trying to make themselves understood.

Australian lecturers Phil Harper and Carla Anderson put their audience through an exercise in which they had to communicate silently with deaf people. Hearing people were given a crash course in sign language.

The Australians are in New Zealand for a month to take workshops on leadership and communication skills.

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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1991-005
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Unknown, 24 May 1991
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