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Paul Harrison: Role Models

Paul was born in 1985 in Hillingdon, London. He lived with his family in Uxbridge and attended a special deaf school in St. Albans from the age of three. From age eleven Paul attended the same school's secondary department attached to a mainstream secondary school. At sixteen he continued on to a local college and from there on to university.

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Here Paul describes the importance of having and being role models for Deaf young people.

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At sixteen, there were no Deaf role models for me. When I’m forty, children of six will be able to look up to me and see everything that can be achieved. A connection is there. It’s been a problem. Deaf people do need to get on for themselves, but also to become role models for younger Deaf people to aspire to.

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