DEAF GIRL RUNS LIP READING SCHOOL
SYDNEY A girl who has been deaf from the age of seven teaches deaf people1 how to "hear" at her home in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay. She is dark-haired, green-eyed, 27-year-okT Joan Grubb. At her own private schoo'l, she teaches deaf people to lip-read. Joan was 'born and educated in Tasmania. Until she was seven she had normal hearing. Then she became gradually deaf, until at the age of 14 she -had entirely lost her hearing. To find a cure she and her mother went to Sydney and consulted specialists, only to find that the deafness was incurable. Then Joan was offered a job at a lip-reading s'chool as an assistant teaeher. She worked there for three ?:ears, and. gradually lost her feeling' of isolation and shyness. In June this year she opened her own school and took in private pupils. As well as teaching her pupils how to understand speech by watching the movements of the speaker's lips, she also teaches them that they need not be isolated froni the rest of the ■ world. Now Joan's students lead a normal life — they swim, play tennis, and' go to cinemas and theatres.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5284, 21 December 1946, Page 3
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200DEAF GIRL RUNS LIP READING SCHOOL Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5284, 21 December 1946, Page 3
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