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Rehoboth museum sets tour with ASL interpreter May 7

Red bouy on right side, lifeguard stand in the middle with varying equipment over time displayed, on left side in the back is a lighthouse station

The Rehoboth Beach Museum invites visitors who are deaf and hard of hearing to join a museum docent and an American Sign Language interpreter for a tour of its current exhibits from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, May 7.

Attendees will explore both permanent exhibits and the special exhibit, The Storm of ’62.

The tour is free with registration.

For more information and to register, go to rehobothbeachmuseum.org and click on the listing for the ASL guided tour on the calendar of museum events.

The museum is located at 511 Rehoboth Ave. and is handicap accessible. Email volunteer@rehobothbeachmuseum.org with any questions.

Thanks to https://www.capegazette.com/article/rehoboth-museum-sets-tour-asl-interpreter-may-7/238177.

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How the ‘Hogwarts of Idaho’ helped a local teenager and hundreds of other deaf and blind students

 

GOODING — Step into a high school reading class on a weekday afternoon and you’ll likely hear teenagers chatting, laughing and telling stories.

But inside one classroom in a unique central Idaho school, around a dozen students aren’t using their voices to tell ‘The Three Little Pigs’; rather, they’re signing the story.

The teenagers are all deaf or hard of hearing and attend the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind. The first student to volunteer to stand in front of the class and sign part of the assignment is Reagan Sermon – an 18-year-old from Idaho Falls.

“I love this school and I wish I came here my whole life,” Reagan tells EastIdahoNews.com. “ASL is my native language which I learned first before I was speaking English.”

Read the rest at https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/04/how-the-hogwarts-of-idaho-helped-a-local-teenager-and-hundreds-of-other-deaf-and-blind-students.