Leaving School

Phillip Wyatt: Culture Shock

Phillip was born in 1959 in Bristol. He attended a local special school for deaf children in Bristol from the age of two. Then at age eleven he went to a residential special school for deaf children in Surrey, continuing on to the school's residential sixth form college.

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Here Philip recalls the difficulty of entering the ‘hearing world’ after school.

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At the end, I had a huge culture shock! When I entered the hearing world, I felt so isolated and invisible amongst all the hustle and bustle of the outside world.

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