Successful integration of the deaf depends on community attitudes

Successful integration of the deaf depends on community attitudes

If a New Zealand-born person doesn’t speak good English, people are likely to assume such a person is unintelligent. Such an assumption is wrong when the person is born deaf.

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Taonga source:

Eastern Suburbs News

Reference number:

SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1974-003

Bibliographic source:

Eastern Suburbs News, 2 October 1974

Author:

Ruth Gerzon

Copyright status:

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

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