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Article: Talking hands; A deaf electronics worker has become a sign languages teacher to colleagues in a bid for better communication.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1999
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THE fact that husband and wife Martha and Martin Carnegie are deaf is having an enlightening effect on their workmates at Raytheon Systems Ltd in Glenrothes.
For Martha is a woman with a mission. She wants to help other people learn the sign language she uses so that they can talk more easily to her and others who are deaf.
Colleagues can now speak the same language as production operator Martha after she taught them during a 10-week sign language course.
Thirty-four people at the leading defence electronics firm gave Martha's ...