News for the Special Education Community
by Alysa Hullett – From picking up dry cleaning to picking up coffee, Melissa “echo” Greenlee spent years struggling with the everyday tasks hearing people take advantage of every day. Some people ignored Greenlee. Others rolled their eyes. Greenlee, who is deaf, found ordering takeout on the phone especially challenging. Using an automated relay call [...]
Sprint is a leader in accessibility communication services for people with disabilities. by The Motley Fool – Sprint, a leader in communications accessibility for all, announced today plans to collaborate with United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) to raise awareness for Sprint’s speech-to-speech (STS) services and increase their usage among individuals with Cerebral Palsy. Sprint and UCP [...]
A teacher at Blankner School in Orlando, Fla., has been selected as the 2013 Scouten Endowed Intern in English Literacy at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Carrie A. Woods works with a team serving about 30 deaf and hard-of-hearing students in middle school. She provides reading instruction to these students, [...]
by Stephanie Graham – If you take a look around the warehouse at Beyond Vision on Milwaukee’s west side, It’s a place bustling with activity as workers assemble parts for big Wisconsin companies like Briggs and Stratton and Osh Kosh Corp. The common thread–most of the workers at Beyond Vision are blind. Jim Kerlin is [...]
by Kathleen Ronayne – The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Princess and the Pea and Rapunzel are classic children’s stories that have been adapted, retold and redrawn in classrooms and homes over and over again. But Dublin resident Laurie Meyer has found a new way to tell those stories: through American Sign Language. She believes [...]
Lindsey Sheaffer’s son, Raymi, was 10 months old when she first began suspecting he was deaf. A pediatrician dismissed her concerns, saying it was “first-time mom jitters.” Six months later, after the birth of her second son, Sheaffer knew better. Her newborn responded to her voice. Raymi didn’t. A different pediatrician confirmed her fears. “I [...]
by Ashlee Coffey – Even though Scott Versch doesn’t have a background in deaf education, the new metals tech teacher at Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs is working hard to absorb and learn everything he can to better communicate with his students. Versch, who officially started teaching classes on Jan. 7, is [...]
by Alan Blondin – Jayden Nogueras won’t win the Friday night 5-kilometer race at Broadway at the Beach that is part of the 16th annual Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon weekend. In all likelihood, he’ll finish last. But his performance will undoubtedly be the most impressive among the more than 1,000 runners. Jayden is 6 … [...]
by Tawnell D. Hobbs – The constant clanging of iron weights used by student athletes sounded throughout a workout room at Woodrow Wilson High School. But for varsity football player Montray Roberts, there was silence. The 17-year-old is deaf, as are some other students who were lifting weights that day at the Dallas ISD campus. [...]
by Jessica Calefati – “Set it up, count it out,” second-grade teacher Nancy Wilson told her class during a recent math lesson on numbers that are greater than, less than or equal to one another. “Which is less, seven or nine?” Wilson asked the class. All her students eagerly raised their hands and one girl [...]
