Angela Murray, NZSL interpreter, working in a mainstream classroom with a deaf student. Communicating through an adult interpreter in a school classroom is challenging in many ways, because school learning involves independent socialising as well as instruction. For this reason, deaf adults emphasise the importance of a deaf peer group for children who use NZSL.
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