Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand is located in Archibald Road, New Lynn,

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. It is a residential special school for

deaf Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written ...

children, as well as a resource centre providing services and support for mainstream students and their teachers in the Upper

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(north of and including Taupo). The Kelston School for the Deaf was established in 1958, as the Kelston School for Deaf Children. It replaced the schools for the deaf at

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and Lopdell House in

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. It changed its name to Kelston Deaf Education Centre in 1991 to better reflect the wide range of services it provided. At the start of the third term of 2020 the school merged with the

Van Asch Deaf Education Centre Van Asch Deaf Education Centre was located in Truro Street, Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand. It was a special school for deaf children, accepting both day and residential pupils, as well being as a resource centre providing services and suppor ...

to form Ko Taku Reo, a national school for Deaf Education.

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