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A RECENT street party held by the east London-based Empowering Deaf Society (EDS) offered a glimpse of a whole new world.
Attending, I was struck by how everyone was communicating via sign language. If you did not have sign language you were an outsider.
Founder of EDS, Mangai Sutharsan, made the point that this was how deaf people often felt in day-to-day society when they can so often be excluded.
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