Deaf students at Arizona school will learn virtually, but not without obstacles

Title (Dublin Core)

Description (Dublin Core)

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students are adjusting to their new normal when it comes to online classes, virtual events and social distancing to prevent the spread of the disease.

But for deaf and hard of hearing students in Arizona public schools, as well as for many more enrolled in private schools, these adjustments introduce new barriers to communication and learning. Last year, according to the Arizona Department of Education, 1,622 deaf or hard of hearing students were in public schools.

Sequoia Deaf School, part of the Edkey Inc. charter school group in Mesa, had 52 students enrolled in grades K through 12 for the 2020-21 school year. Its experience navigating the pandemic illustrates some of the challenges deaf students face, such as difficulty reading lips and faces behind masks, the shorter attention spans of young deaf students and the loss of their nurturing school community.

By Katelyn Keenehan/Luce Foundation: Southwest Stories Fellowship

Date (Dublin Core)

September 14, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Katelyn Keenehan

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Erin Craft

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

Cronkite-LuceFellowship

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

link

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/09/14/deaf-students-arizona-school-learn-virtually/

http://web.archive.org/web/20201001224425/https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/09/14/deaf-students-arizona-school-learn-virtually/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Cronkite News

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Clothing & Accessories

English Education--K12

English News coverage

English Social Distance

English Technology

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

virtual learning

lip reading

isolation

ASL

mask

deaf

Mesa

Arizona

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

lucegrant

Collection (Dublin Core)

Luce Grant

Deaf, deaf, and HOH Perspectives

Disability

Children

K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Deaf students at an Arizona school will go virtual, but not without obstacles

Erin Craft Biography Sheet

Exhibit (Dublin Core)

Southwest Stories>Schools, Services & Small Businesses

Southwest Stories>Katelyn Keenehan

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/01/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/01/2020

10/21/2020

03/21/2021

07/15/2021

03/22/2022

04/19/2022

06/11/2022

11/12/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

09/14/2020

Item sets

Covid 19

Southwest Stories