Debbie Lawrence works as an Itinerant Counsellor in the Waikato, Bay of Plenty region. She describes herself as an oral deaf professional who shares life experiences as a hearing aid user with young deaf and hearing impaired students in mainstream school settings. After a varied work career in New Zealand and overseas, she became a Secondary teacher specialising in Geography, Social Studies and Economics. It was the experiences of her daughter as a young person with a hearing loss, that closely connected with those that she had as a young person that prompted her to consider a move to Deaf Education. More recently, Debbie has qualified as a Counsellor specialising in Narrative Therapy.
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