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New Zealand Sign Language must be given official recognition as a language or it will die, Deaf Association President Jennifer Brain says.

Deaf students have the right to equal access to tertiary education but who will pay for sign language interpreters?

New Government policy on educating disabled children has ended more than three decades of teaching deaf children at St Dominic's in Feilding.

It takes only a few minutes in the company of Pat Dugdale to realise that she has a mischievous sense of fun. It’s almost as if she enjoys shocking people and then watching their reaction.

Deaf people were incensed when a television commentator at the Commonwealth opening last night referred to an athlete as "deaf and dumb".

Local man Lindsay Jones has a national reputation as a skilful storyteller. Unless more people learn sign language, however, that recognition is likely to remain limited mainly to the deaf community.

A requirement by the Transport Ministry in Dunedin for hearing-impaired drivers to obtain a doctor's certificate before being granted a licence has angered national licensing co-ordinator. An agreement was reached in 1982 by representatives of the ministry, Automobile Association and ear specialists that loss of hearing was no handicap to private motorists.

Qualified interpreters are desperately needed to cope with the needs of deaf people in New Zealand.

A shortage of sign language interpreters means as many as 7700 deaf people are struggling to access services in their communities.