NFD Journal: September 1991 (Vol. 5, No. 3)

Some of the items featured in the September 1991 issue of ‘NFD Journal:

  • The theme of the annual Deaf Awareness Week is “Face Up to the Problem” (September 22 to 29, 1991)
  • It is announced that Dave Moskovitz and Pat Dugdale have been appointed as editors of the NZSL Dictionary project, and will job-share the editorial position – Pat as Communications Editor and Dave as Technical Editor. 
  • Kelson and van Asch are both featured with details of what both schools provide, with its Teacher Aides learning TC. Senior students gather at Kelston for a day of workshops and talking about Deaf culture. 
  • Research into hereditary deafness by Dunedin Hospital, collecting blood samples from quite a few New Zealand families with recessive deafness, with plans to do a ‘gene-searching’ exercise on those samples.
  • Deaf Organisations
  • TV/Media
Reference number:
NFDJ1991-5-3-MJN