From http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/05/deaf-mentors-aiding-families
Deaf mentors teach families with hearing-impaired children to use sign language
By Sara Patterson
December 5, 2011
The first time Mary-Kathryn Jackson got up to leave the Hewgleys' Germantown apartment, the 3-year-old boy she had just begun to tutor clung to her and cried.
Before he met her, crying was about the only way Evan Hewgley-Peterson could communicate.
But that has started to change as the family learns sign language with free help from their personal mentor, who is herself deaf.
The Hewgleys are one of 20 families enrolled in a new mentoring program for deaf children from the Deaf Family Literacy Academy of Memphis, sponsored by the Memphis City Schools Foundation and Dollar General.
There are approximately 400 deaf and hard of hearing children in the Greater Memphis area, according to DFLA, and already there is a wait-list for the program. DFLA at Memphis hopes to serve 30 families next year, and 50 the following, said Carrier.
On top of sign language lessons, the mentors focus on reading comprehension with their pupils, who range in age from 0 to 12.
Read the full article at http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/05/deaf-mentors-aiding-families
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