Tag: highlights
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WPSD builds bridges with hearing community
When communicating with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, don’t talk REALLY LOUD because it really won’t help at all. This would seem to be common sense, but it happens all the time, according to deaf people who teach American Sign Language at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. It also…
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Scores are only half the game or Deaf basketball tourney
It wasn’t just game time this week inside the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf’s gymnasium in Edgewood. It was tournament time. Student-athletes, coaches and family members from three states and Washington, D.C., traveled to Western Pennsylvania for the 14th annual Tri-State Middle School Basketball Tournament. The tournament marked the culmination of WPSD’s season, a…
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Book says Civil War pivotal in deaf history
Note: Harry Lang is 1965 WPSD graduate, he published his new book to the public in America. The American Civil War played a pivotal role in bringing the nation’s deaf population out of society’s shadows, asserts a forthcoming book by a former NTID professor. Harry G. Lang has spent a good part of his professional…
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WPSD brings together peers for soccer
Seth Reeves, possibly the fastest player on the pitch, broke free of defenders and streaked toward the goal. Maintaining command of the ball on his foot, he lined up the shot and kicked. It was a perfect strike. The ball sailed into the back of the net, and the crowd reacted — in varying ways.…
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New CEO hopes students will be ‘lifelong learners’
By Tim Grant / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Steven E. Farmer, the new CEO of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, spent most of his early childhood in deaf schools, but when he transferred to a public school in ninth grade, the experience gave him a new appreciation for the benefits of deaf students attending deaf…
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WPSD CEO Rhoten to retire
BY PHILLIP POUPORE | Sunday, June 19, 2016, 10:33 p.m. Don Rhoten had rarely seen snow when he moved from Florida to Pittsburgh in January 1994 to take over as CEO for the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Rhoten will never forget that first week in Pittsburgh. During his walk to work on the first…
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Deaf cheerleaders sign their team spirit
Cheerleaders for the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf may not be yelling, but that doesn’t mean their messages aren’t being heard. Members of the cheerleading squad use hand signals and facial expressions to promote their team spirit. They cheer for the Lions boys and girls basketball teams at the Edgewood school in front of…
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WPSD Newsletter Restoration: 1949, ’52 and ’53
Big thanks to alumnus/relatives who gave us the WPAN (Western Pennsylvanian) newsletter. We noticed all of those newsletter are become decomposition or in poor conditional, that would becoming difficult for us to bring the good quality of newsletter to post in our website. We figured ourselves for the solution to have a restoration on those poor conditional…
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Danah cannot hear, but she thrived at Carlow
By Bill Schackner / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Like plenty of graduates this commencement season, Danah Richter will step onto a stage in cap and gown and utter to herself an expression common this time of year: “I did it!” But in fact, the Carlow University senior’s path to a college degree was anything but ordinary. Ms.…