van Asch Deaf Education Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
Welcome to the van Asch Deaf Education Centre website. Search our site using the boxes to the right, explore the menus above, or view the extensive list of resources for deaf and hard-of-hearing students available for you to purchase from our Online Shop.
The van Asch Deaf Education Centre is a residential special school for deaf children, and is situated in Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Centre strives to be a leading provider of quality educational programmes and special related services that meet the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students and their families, in the lower half of the North Island and the South Island of New Zealand.
The Centre also provides services and support for mainstream students and their teachers.
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Left to right: Sue Beaton (judge), Tri Nguyen, Tagialofa Eneliko, Da Won Choi, Poura Nathan, Margaret Hunt (judge). Congratulations to all of the junior and senior high school students on their superb speeches they gave during the VADEC Public Speaking Competition. The judges were thrilled with the high standard of speeches. The winner of the senior high school competition was Da Won Choi and highly commended was Tri Nguyen. The winner of the junior high school competition was Tagialofa Eneliko with Poura Nathan being highly commended. |

