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Hi folks!

Welcome to the official liveblog of the 2010 National Disability Conference, hosted by the Health and Disability Commissioner, entitled “Making It Easy To Speak Up”. This post will automatically update throughout the day, and I’ll be doing my best to bring you all the action from this year’s conference.

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, use the comments form below. I’m sure it’ll be a great day!

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The NZ Police have today announced a new text message service for deaf people who wish to report an emergency. It never really occurred to me before that members of the deaf community may struggle to report an emergency if they have to use a telephone to do so. Anyway, I think this is great news. Click ‘read more’ for the full news release!