{"id":413681,"date":"2026-05-06T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:11","slug":"building-a-deaf-aware-depot-at-clandeboye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413681\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a deaf-aware depot at Clandeboye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since joining the depot last August, Joe says the team has built a supportive, deaf-aware environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows they shouldn\u2019t talk to me across the room, they need to face me, and they\u2019ve gotten on board with that,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the mornings at shift briefings, the team manager will face me and speak slowly so I can lip read.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joe mainly communicates through text and says someone is always available to help if he needs it. He\u2019s also developed visual ways to communicate with others. \u201cWhen I\u2019m unloading a tanker, I will turn a light to signal green to let people know the valve is open\u2026that\u2019s a visual system that lets them know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since joining the depot last August, Joe says the team has built a supportive, deaf-aware environment. \u201cEveryone knows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3121,111,43,139,69,18988],"class_list":["post-413681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-careers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}