NFD Communicate: Summer 1998

Some of the items featured in the Summer 1998 (Vol. 8, No. 2) Issue of ‘NFD Communicate’:

  • A day in the life of an Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf
  • Tertiary education – the challenges and opportunities. The Disability Liaison Office at AIT expanded its services. The goal is to establish a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for Deaf and hearing impaired students. 
  • Van Asch Deaf Education Centre is currently writing a Deaf Studies Curriculum to be made available to all deaf children. 
  • ‘Deaf Network New Zealand’ was born on 29 August 1998, where a group met for a weekend workshop to discuss the need for a network for Deaf professionals. 
  • 60 people attended the NZSLTA ‘Silent Weekend’ camp and deemed it a roaring success!

  1. Allan Richardson

  2. Angela Sew Hoy

  3. Brent Macpherson

  4. Diana Murray

  5. Lee Bullivant

  6. Maureen Seth

  7. Penny Went

  8. Ruth Strawbridge

  9. Tony Kuklinski

Reference number NFDC1998-8-2-MJN