Tag: highlights
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Australia students visit WPSD
Deaf students from Australia let their hands do the talking to teens here Signs of friendshipMonday, December 03, 2007By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Photo by Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Adam Duty, left, a 16-year-old 11th-grade student at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, uses sign language to communicate with Shirley Liu, 15, a 10th-grade student visiting…
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Beaver court goes high-tech to try deaf man
Thursday, October 06, 2005 By Gabrielle Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Url: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05279/583562.stm Beaver County court officials have rearranged the furniture and done a half-dozen practice runs with the high-tech contraptions they plan to use in a competency hearing today for a Freedom man charged with killing his sister and brother-in-law at his parents’ home in May.…
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Preparing for life in a hearing world – School for the Deaf students graduate
By Gabrielle Banks and Darrell Sapp, Post-Gazette Emily Jo Noschese, wearing her crown as the May queen, sits with fellow senior Marisa Mills to watch the May Day event last month at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. The aroma in the school cafeteria and the banter around its tables two weeks before graduation…
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2004 National Soccer Team of the Year
WPSD’s Soccer Team Selected the FRAT’s National Team of the Year By Val Wojton III, Soccer Coach Sports Editor of DeafSportZine and Editor of DeafDigest Barry Strassler from the FRAT (National Fraternal Society of the Deaf) announced that the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf soccer team is the Soccer National Team of the Year!…