Pennant: New Zealand Deaf Sports Team, January 1989 — SignDNA - Deaf National Archive New Zealand

Pennant: New Zealand Deaf Sports Team, January 1989

A white pennant with black text and imagery of a person playing basketball, and of another sprinting with the fern on both sides. The black text says “New Zealand Deaf Amateur Sports Assoc., NEW ZEALAND DEAF SPORTS TEAM, 16^th WORLD GAMES for the DEAF, CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND, JANUARY 1989.

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NZSL story – Taonga source: Janet Watt

Teaching sign language in preparation for the Christchurch 1989 World Deaf Games

Once New Zealand was awarded the host of the XVIth World Deaf Games at Los Angeles 1985, there was a realisation that sign language classes needed to commence in preparation for Christchurch 1989.

Margaret Coutts

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