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Deafblind Awareness Day – Helen Keller’s Day

The theme for DeafBlind Awareness Week and Helen Keller awareness events in 2026 is “Connected by Touch: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges.” The […]

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Deaf History

Friday – Continue about Official NZSL Awarenss Week

On Friday, 8 May 2026, I spoke with a Chinese woman in the library about Deaf Culture and sign language after class. […]

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Sign language - NZSL

Official NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language)

This year represents the first major milestone for NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language) and the D/deaf community since 2006. Although the D/deaf […]

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Sign language - NZSL

The man behind the photos

Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria ( My language is my awakening, my language is the window […]

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Sign language - NZSL

An Offical language – NZSL in New Zealand

Summary provided by AI Overview. New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) became an official language in April 2006 under the New Zealand Sign […]

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Deaf History

Support Waikato Deaf Society Inc., in 2025

I have been looking at the Give a Little page for the Waikato Deaf Society Inc 2025. Just to clarify, this is […]

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Deaf Culture

International Day of Mother Language – 21st February

The International Day of Mother Language serves to recognise and promote linguistic and cultural diversity on a global scale. “I again realised […]

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Deaf Culture

Wednesday 24th September 2025

Multilingual Educators for Deaf Learners The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), a leading global organisation dedicated to championing the rights of […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf History

Tuesday 23rd October 2025

Tuesday 23rd October 2025 No Human Rights without Sign Language Rights All people have an inherent right to human rights from birth. […]

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Deaf History

Welcome to the International Week of Deaf People 2025

Welcome to the International Week of Deaf People 2025, a significant event that plays a crucial role in advancing the rights of […]

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  • Deaf History
  • Sign Language around the world
  • Sign Language is a beautiful language
  • Deaf People’s First Language in New Zealand
  • Sign language – NZSL
  • History of NZSL
  • New Zealand Education for the Deaf
  • Deaf with other Disability/ties
Deaf History
  • September 12, 2018
  • 3 mins
  • 8 years
  • 353 words
  • 1

The Forgotten Deaf People in USA – September 11th 2001

hurihia to aroaro ki te ra tukuna to atarangi kia taka ki muri i a koe “turn your face to the sun […]

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History of NZSL
  • September 11, 2018
  • 5 mins
  • 8 years
  • 637 words
  • 1
  • 2

Deaf Māori people

https://youtu.be/HllX6kqfXlc   He aha te mea nui I tea ao He tāngata he tāngata he tāngata This Māori Whakataukī (proverbs) showed above and […]

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Deaf Education
  • September 8, 2018
  • 2 Comments on Hey ooh!! What a memory at the Hamilton West School!
  • 3 mins
  • 8 years
  • 410 words
  • 2

Hey ooh!! What a memory at the Hamilton West School!

The first Deaf unit established in the Waikato, New Zealand and based in the City of Hamilton in the early 1960s. There […]

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Sign language - NZSL
  • September 7, 2018
  • 2 mins
  • 8 years
  • 282 words
  • 7

Understanding how NZSL language work

The aspects of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) work by many Deaf people in New Zealand. As a deaf linguist, I am […]

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History of NZSL
  • August 31, 2018
  • 3 mins
  • 8 years
  • 370 words
  • 2

Deaf People’s First Language in New Zealand

Many people assumed our language is English – nearly three fifty hundred years ago in New Zealand. Wrong! The first language is […]

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Sign language - NZSL
  • August 26, 2018
  • 2 mins
  • 8 years
  • 230 words
  • 1

Sign Language is a beautiful language

  In this picture – this showed you a different kind of sign languages, and it is not related to our Deaf […]

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Deaf History
  • August 7, 2018
  • 2 mins
  • 8 years
  • 259 words
  • 1

Journey into the Deaf world

  Looking back to 2012, in Hamilton, there was the 50th Reunion of Hamilton Deaf Units held at the Hamilton West School, […]

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Deaf History
  • August 1, 2018
  • 1 Comment on Hello world!
  • 1 min
  • 8 years
  • 8 words

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Deafblind Awareness Day – Helen Keller’s Day
June 27, 2026
Friday – Continue about Official NZSL Awarenss Week
May 11, 2026
Official NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language)
May 7, 2026
The man behind the photos
May 5, 2026

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