 Programs
Sign language classes are held Monday - Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. These classes are free for parents, family members, and community members. Contact the school for more information.
Successful Programs of the Recent Past
22 families enrolled in the Shared Reading Program and received tutoring designed to improve parent/child communication and pre-literacy/literacy skills in ASL. Each family received 15 weeks instruction in their home by qualified tutors. Each week’s session was one full hour. Children in the program ranged between the ages of birth through 9 years.
Shared Reading Poster
22 -24 middle school deaf and hard of hearing students participated in a hands-on, after school environmental studies program. The program, based on the “Kids for Saving Earth” and Michigan State University standards-based curricula focused on urban environmental issues. The Environmental Studies Workshop (also known as “Conservation Camp” in promotional materials), ran for 4 hours per week for 8 weeks. In that time students had the opportunity to research issues impacting their daily lives such as air and water quality, recycling and local conservation efforts. They worked in teams to create projects for presentation to the school and their families. Completed work would be featured on their own web page at kidsforsavingearth.org and have the option of being entered in Gallaudet University’s “Going Green” essay and art contest for 2009. This program was designed to increase communication, language, reading and general knowledge skills. Students in the program were between 10 through 15 years old.
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