Maggie Hoyt can't hear, so sign language interpreters in her classes at Portland High School help the 16-year-old sophomore understand what her teachers are saying. Teachers trained in working with the deaf also assist her and 11 other deaf or partially deaf students at the school. In addition, the school offers American Sign Language classes for hearing students - providing a way for deaf and hearing classmates to communicate with each other.
The NewAlliance Foundation's board of directors recently approved 17 capital grants, ranging from $5,000 to $150,000, to local organizations. Some of the grants are for a single year while others are multi-year. American Red Cross of Wallingford-Meriden, American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, the Branford Land Trust, the Central Connecticut Coast YMCA, Community Health Services in Hartford, Fellowship Place in New Haven and Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford are among the grant recipients.
Excitement builds as Doug Persing inches to the free-throw line. His team leads by 22 points, and, still, his classmates and teachers lean forward in their bleacher seats, waiting to explode with emotion.
...Not in this gym. The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf's boys basketball team is enjoying on...A recent road trip to the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn., for e...
Emily Scott of Evansville was selected as a youth staff member at the Indiana State Fair Youth Leadership Conference at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and the Indiana School for the Deaf recently. She was named Who's Who Among American High School Scholars, was a National Honor Society member at North High School and is a freshman at Purdue University. Her parents are Stuart and Martha Scott.
PORTLAND -- The University of Southern Maine's ninth annual Maine Deaf Film Festival, showcasing innovation and creative talent within the realm of film and video created by the deaf community, will be held April 8-9. The goal of the student-run event, put on by the school's American Sign Language Club, is to provide a platform for people to learn about, appreciate and celebrate deaf culture, issues and art.
They fill rows of benches in a cluttered football locker room with their eyes and ears hanging on to Ed McCarthy's every word. Among the minions sits Connell McLaurin, rarely shifting his focus through 15 minutes of instruction and preaching. He sits in full pads against a wall and digests what McCarthy, the second-winningest coach in Connecticut high school football history, offers. In just Connell's second year of organized football, the 18-year-old is years behind his West Haven teammates in terms of strength and development, but he sits in the same locker room every day and stands on the same sideline every game.
... three years later, found a ride to the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford and drove thr...
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