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Tech course to help the deaf

A significant step for New Zealand’s deaf community has been taken this week. The country’s first permanent sign language interpreters’ course began on Monday at the Auckland Institute of Technology. At present there are only four official interpreters servicing New Zealand’s more than 24,000 deaf people. Sixteen students from around the country started the two-year course this week.

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Taonga source:
Harbour News
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1992-013
Bibliographic source:
July 8, 1992
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