NFD Communicate: Spring/Summer 1999

Some of the items featured in the Spring/Summer 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 5) Issue of ‘NFD Communicate’:

  • Academy Award winning Deaf actress Marlee Matlin is interviewed and featured in this issue of NFD Communicate.
  • Amanda and Judy Everitt talk about being Deaf, Deaf identity and opportunities. 
  • An article on NZSL vs Signed English, the difference between NZSL, BSL, Auslan, ASL, and how to learn NZSL. 
  • The World Federation for the Deaf Congress at Brisbane, Australia is deemed a success, with a total of 2,171 delegates from 90 countries represented. 
  • An extract from Angela Sew Hoy’s keynote paper presented at a Dunedin Conference, “Cracking the Glass Ceiling”

  1. Abbie Twiss

  2. Amanda Everitt

  3. Angela Sew Hoy

  4. Ann Stronge

  5. Barbara Herrick

  6. Betty Bryson

  7. Brent Macpherson

  8. Claire Liddicoat

  9. Dennis Herrick

  10. Graham Lines

  11. Jean Masters

  12. Jeff Went

  13. Joan Richards

  14. John Lavell

  15. Judy Everitt

  16. Lynette Pivac

  17. Margaret Cooper

  18. Ngaire Doherty

  19. Paul Gillespie

  20. Penny Went

  21. Ray Jenkin

  22. Roger Strong

  23. Tom Still

  24. Viola Thiekle

Reference number NFDC1999-8-5-MJN