New location of school for deaf and blind children opens in Salt Lake City

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New location of school for deaf and blind children opens in Salt Lake City - KSTU

Students who attend Utah schools for the deaf and blind celebrate a new campus location in Salt Lake City after years of planning and construction. Students, teachers and administrators celebrated with a ribbon cutting earlier this week. "This has been a long time coming. I've been involved with trying to fund this school and get it built for eight years," Gregg Buxton said.

The students have been moved eight times in the last ten years. "They really needed a home. We've been moving them around because we've never had a permanent location," Steve Noyce said.

The new school is complete with all the latest technologies including new computers and a bilingual, bi cultural media center. "It has everything that we need. It as the acoustic treatment in the rooms for the children who are deaf. It has a great space and light for children with vision impairment," Noyce said.

The new campus will serve students in preschool through high school.
 
Oh that's awesome! I do think there needs to be "branches" of the state Deaf and blind schools in the cities.
This will be good for the local "just blind kids" Maybe this way they can get "blind enrichment" and more friends who are blind.
Not to mention that the population of SLC and its suburbs can take advantage of this branch of the deaf school.
 
This is Miss Kat's old bi-bi school! We have been campaigning for YEARS for a new building and permanent home. SO HAPPY!!!
 
Maybe the new visabilty will translate into better resources and more students.
I know many parents at mainstream schools are really frustrated at how difficult it is to get good accomondations in the mainstream.
 
Is there anymore info about this?? I'm not deaf..and i'm learning ASL at my highschool and for a homework assignment we are suppose to find a current event happening in the deaf community. And i wanna choose this but i need more info.
 
shortperson52 said:
Is there anymore info about this?? I'm not deaf..and i'm learning ASL at my highschool and for a homework assignment we are suppose to find a current event happening in the deaf community. And i wanna choose this but i need more info.
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What would you like to know? I have a lot of information since it was my daughter's school.
 
Yay! Im so happy we've got that new school opening finally. I hope they can continue to expand it more because there is definately the demand.
 
I'd bet they love the smell of a new building. It's sorta like the smell of a brand new car. :)

Goodie for them for finally getting a new school and all.

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
I'd bet they love the smell of a new building. It's sorta like the smell of a brand new car. :)

Goodie for them for finally getting a new school and all.

Yiz
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It's not actually a newly built building. It is new to them, and renovated, and it will be their permanante home.
 
I went to USD in Odgen waaay back in late 70's to early 80's. I missed the reunion last summer cuz no one informed me advance of time! UGH! Gotta to find out who is in charge of reunion.....oh well
 
shortperson52 said:
well i'm not exactly sure..but pretty much whatever you know about it would be great.
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The bi-bi school is called Jean Massieu School for the Deaf (JMS). It was started as a charter school because parents of Deaf children didn't believe that Utah School for the Deaf and Blind (USDB) had an appropriate enviroment for Deaf students who use ASL as their primary language. In 2006, JMS merged with USDB. JMS has moved many times, and been housed in several buildings, some delapidated and without heat and air-conditioning. The state legislature had denied paying for a building for nearly 10 years. Last summer, the parents of JMS students and members of the Deaf community reached out to the legislature again, BUT also contacted the media, and held a protest at the capital building. At the end of the protest the state governor meet with the parents and promised to stand up in front of the legislature and demand the funding. It finally worked! The building was approved during the session and placed at number 1 priority for the year.
 
faire_jour said:
The bi-bi school is called Jean Massieu School for the Deaf (JMS). It was started as a charter school because parents of Deaf children didn't believe that Utah School for the Deaf and Blind (USDB) had an appropriate enviroment for Deaf students who use ASL as their primary language. In 2006, JMS merged with USDB. JMS has moved many times, and been housed in several buildings, some delapidated and without heat and air-conditioning. The state legislature had denied paying for a building for nearly 10 years. Last summer, the parents of JMS students and members of the Deaf community reached out to the legislature again, BUT also contacted the media, and held a protest at the capital building. At the end of the protest the state governor meet with the parents and promised to stand up in front of the legislature and demand the funding. It finally worked! The building was approved during the session and placed at number 1 priority for the year.
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That's really cool...and also i was born in utah and moved when i was 2 and then moved back for 7th and 8th grade so it's really cool to hear about this.
 
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