Category: Deaf Education
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Exploring the invaluable photos of the Deaf students in the historic photo album
The photo album, a precious gift from Joyce, a former Deaf student, has allowed me (Jean, a Deaf historian and researcher) to scan and review photos for the significant reunion of Titirangi and Mount Wellington School for the Deaf in October 2025. Joyce, despite her disabilities, including being deafblind, was determined to share her memories…
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An Unique Marae for the Turi Māori
https://www.teaomaori.news/turi-maori-open-their-very-own-marae Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria “My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.” Thousands of years, there were no maraes for the Turi (Deaf) Māori until recently last year. It was the special moment of their lives and wore their feelings of pride…
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Strengthen within the Tū Tangata Turi and the wider people around Aotearoa
The importance of community/people around Aotearoa. He aha te mea nui o te ao? Hthe e tangata! He tangata! He tangata! What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! It is people! This whakatauki talks to the importance of human connection and relationships. This is what creates community…
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Ko Tāku Reo – Deaf Education New Zealand
The announcement of the Deaf Education Centre in New Zealand officially made on the 24th of July 2020. In the past, there were more than four Deaf Schools scattered around New Zealand from the 1880s. The oldest and the first Deaf School was van Asch Deaf Education – formerly Sumner School for the Deaf in…
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Continue – Girolamo Cardano
Girolamo Cardano born in 1501, Pavia, Italy, and died 1576, Rome, Italy. His life was turbulent, and two of his sons became problems with Girolamo. Girolamo was a polymath, founder of various fields and inventors of several machines, and his interest in areas was Science, literature, Maths, and Philosophy. He had three sons as…
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Sign languages vs lip reading
Is sign language better than lip reading? This poem is from a Deaf child via Facebook. Movie on 2-02-20 at 5.08 PM NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language) Video on 2-02-20 at 5.11 PM Speech in conversation (Note – there is no sound except the traffic noise.) Over many years there has been widely debated over sign…
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One of the earliest teachers of the Deaf children
Miss Kay Deare Miss Kay Deare was one of the earliest teachers of the Deaf children, and she came to the Deaf Unit, at Hamilton West School in 1965. Kay was the popular teacher for the Deaf children over many years until she retired as an Advisor of the Deaf Children. She taught Deaf children…
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School by the Lake Rotoroa, Waikato
Hamilton Rotoroa and Hamilton West School The school in Hamilton showed in the right middle of the photo above. It is called Hamilton West School, and this building built on the hill along Victoria Street during the earliest European Settlement in Hamilton – 1864. Two Redoubts in Hamilton between the Waikato River Then around the…
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Who is Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée?
Abbe de l’Eppe Did you know that today it was a special day for the Deaf community? If not, let learn about Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée in France. To the Deaf community for he was the Father of the Deaf in France. Today it is a three hundred and six years since his birth at the…
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Did you know Annie Jump Cannon was deaf or not?
“No greater problem is presented to the human mind” Many Deaf women have made significant contributions to the sciences. A Deaf woman who explored astronomy and the constellation. Her name is Annie Jump Cannon. She was an advocate for women’s suffrage and a member of the National Women’s Party. Annie born in 1863 in Dover,…