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NZSL interpreter in mainstream classroom

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Woman signing with a boy in class.

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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Rachel McKee, New Zealand Sign Language – Ghost page, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47345/nzsl-interpreter-in-mainstream-classroom (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Rachel McKee, published 27 August 2020, updated 1 September 2020.