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Teaching deaf children

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Within the Catholic Church there were whole orders – generally single-sex – devoted to one kind of service or another. In this film clip a Dominican nun is teaching deaf children to speak at St Dominic's School for the Deaf in Island Bay, Wellington, probably in 1949 or 1950.

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Reference: City District Health Nurse. National Film Unit, 1950

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Anne Else, Gender inequalities – Religion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/28664/teaching-deaf-children (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Anne Else, published 26 April 2011.