Soundscape: September 2009

Some of the items featured in the September 2009 issue of ‘Soundscape’:

  • Victoria University has been processing applications for people to study a Postgraduate Diploma in Sign Language Interpreting from Australia’s Macquarie University from 2010. It is a pilot venture to develop a higher level of academic and practical expertise in the NZSL interpreting profession.
  • Oticon Foundation Grant Recipients 2009 with Northland Parents of Deaf Children receiving a grant for deaf youth projectity.
  • Deaf Organisations
  • TV/Media

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