Soundscape: February 2007

Some of the items featured in the February 2007 issue of ‘Soundscape’:

  • A documentary, “Signs of the Times” is now available on DVD; it is about Deaf New Zealanders who fought to have their language recognised as a real language.
  • Oticon Foundation Grant Recipients 2006.
  • Deaf Organisations
  • TV/Media

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