1880: Silencing the Deaf

21/11/2022 11 min
1880: Silencing the Deaf

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Episode Synopsis

State Programmes always achieve the very opposite of whatever they set out to do. March 10, 1880: The Sumner Deaf and Dumb Institution opened for business in Christchurch and it was bankrolled by the New Zealand Government. The Sumner Institute had the oxygen of state funding coupled with legislative force to abduct deaf children from […]