Miss-Delectable
New Member
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2004
- Messages
- 17,164
- Reaction score
- 6
Kids Learn To Sign To Reach Out To Deaf Classmate - Education News Story - WCVB Boston
Getting fifth-graders to skip lunch and recess to study is no easy task. But a local student managed to inspire her classmates to do just that.
NewsCenter 5's Bianca de la Garza reported that the students spent the extra time learning Michaela Borstel's language: American Sign Language.
"I feel really welcomed here," Borstel said of the Governor Winslow School in Marshfield.
Borstel, 15, is deaf and works with interpreters in the classroom
"I'm really happy that all of my friends have learned sign and I'm able to communicate with them," she said.
"There is no access unless the other children sign. People think you put an interpreter in and have to have a community full access -- but not academically," interpreter Annie McLaughlin said.
Borstel could have gone to a collaborative school a school where all of the students are deaf, but it was her choice to come to the Governor Winslow School.
McLaughlin said student involvement is crucial and was impressed to see other children form the Flying Finger Club to practice sign language during their lunches and recess.
"Everybody is different, but everyone is normal. They just consider signing part of their life here," McLaughlin said.
"She is letting us accept her culture and we're accepting her," one student said.
"It's nice getting to know different kind of people," another student said.
Getting fifth-graders to skip lunch and recess to study is no easy task. But a local student managed to inspire her classmates to do just that.
NewsCenter 5's Bianca de la Garza reported that the students spent the extra time learning Michaela Borstel's language: American Sign Language.
"I feel really welcomed here," Borstel said of the Governor Winslow School in Marshfield.
Borstel, 15, is deaf and works with interpreters in the classroom
"I'm really happy that all of my friends have learned sign and I'm able to communicate with them," she said.
"There is no access unless the other children sign. People think you put an interpreter in and have to have a community full access -- but not academically," interpreter Annie McLaughlin said.
Borstel could have gone to a collaborative school a school where all of the students are deaf, but it was her choice to come to the Governor Winslow School.
McLaughlin said student involvement is crucial and was impressed to see other children form the Flying Finger Club to practice sign language during their lunches and recess.
"Everybody is different, but everyone is normal. They just consider signing part of their life here," McLaughlin said.
"She is letting us accept her culture and we're accepting her," one student said.
"It's nice getting to know different kind of people," another student said.
See me smile