| VCOD Email News
for 10th September 2002 ·
National Week of Deaf
People Update ·
Melbourne Festival (many
free interpreted events) ·
Arts/theatre News update ·
Web Sites to visit VCOD
NEWS National Week of Deaf PeopleWednesday
9th October Young and Jackson Pub Saturday
12th Oct is Puffing Billy and Picnic at Emerald Lake Sunday
13th Oct Art show organised by Deaf Arts Network Sunday
13th October Sports Day at VSDC 10am to 4pm Sunday
13th October Melbourne Museum tour of the Italian Arts in
Auslan Tuesday
15th October
John Pierce Centre Open day at 5 Donald St Prahran. Tuesday
13th October VSDC
History Tour 10am, 1pm and
3pm Tuesday
Night 15th October Debate Night “Are
Deaf people better off today then 20 years ago??”
Robert Adam President of AAD will be in attendance. Launch of National Week of Deaf People Thursday
17th October at Vicdeaf Chapel. Saturday
19th October
Open day at Lake Park in Blackburn (More
information coming soon.) More
information will be available soon along with information from other
organisation’s events as well Melbourne
Festival
Check out
the events page at VCOD where some events are free and suitable for
children while other events have interpreters.
Go to www.vcod.com.au/whatnews/events
and scroll to October.
Deaf
mom fights to keep kids from ear implants (From the Grand Rapid Press)
(obtain from H2H email)
This
is a court case where two wards of the States children (that is the mum or
dad does not look after them) are being encouraged to have a Cochlear by
the people looking after the children (Welfare).
The Mother has taken the issue to court and you can read more about
it on this link below. http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news-3/1031323531148470.xml
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