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KISD denies it fired deaf students’ interpreters; documents show otherwise
A deaf Harker Heights High School student had a health emergency on campus Tuesday when her blood sugar reached 400, something her mother warned might happen after her sign language interpreter was abruptly fired.
“This is totally unacceptable,” Jennifer Evangelista, mother of the Heights High sophomore, said by phone Wednesday. “She has a number of health issues, including epilepsy, so when my daughter feels stressed, with a lot of anxiety — that starts to mess around with her sugar levels.”
The stress of being unable to communicate at school, she said, causes her daughter physical health problems.
Deaf Dog Learns Sign Language in Just Eight Weeks
The old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks might not be true, but one young dog has learned sign language in just eight weeks.
When dog mom Jo Le Page, 41, found that her seven-month-old Spanish Water Dog Rafa couldn’t hear, she began to teach him sign language.
Nine Signs in Eight Weeks
And in just eight weeks, the clever pup has learned nine different signs. The signs he’s learned include sit, stand, stay, and paw, as well as watch me, spin, lie down, come, and even safe. With safe, he’ll walk under his mom’s legs, turn around, and remain there.
However, Rafa isn’t finished yet, as he’s still busy learning more hand signals. Jo says that his disability won’t limit his life. She hopes that people won’t be as quick to euthanize disabled dogs – or leave them in shelters.
Read on at https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/deaf-dog-learns-sign-language-110224446.html?guccounter=1.