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Deaf Education Aotearoa New Zealand Journal: Spring 2003

Some of the items featured in the Spring 2003 issue of ‘DEANZ’ (Vol. 2, No. 2):

  • The Southern Cochlear Implant Programme at van Asch Deaf Education Centre
  • Project HIEDI: Hearing-Impairment-Early Detection and Intervention
  • A New Zealand-Samoan Connection, an article by Sara Pivac talking about the first Foreign Aid project ever attempted within the New Zealand Deaf community in Samoa.
  • The Writing Project: A Joint Project between Kelston and van Asch
  • Spinning a DEANZ Web
  • Deaf Organisations
  • TV/Media

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Beatrice Nuthall
Beatrice Nuthall
Darryl Alexander
Darryl Alexander
Elaine Sautia
Elaine Sautia
Rachel Noble
Rachel Noble
Ruth Dyson
Ruth Dyson
Sara Pivac Alexander
Sara Pivac Alexander
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Deaf Education Aotearoa New Zealand
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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, DEANZ2003-02-1-MJN
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