Tag: highlights
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WPSD Deaf community within the BLM movement
Reminder Note: WPSD Students, Alumnus, staff/teachers and friends who are participated in the video. For professional interpreter Amy Crawford, American Sign Language is her first language. Ms. Crawford is a CODA — child of deaf adults. Interpretation has always been a part of her everyday life growing up, using ASL at doctor’s appointments, in the…
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Zane Noschese wife in DailyMail.com spotlight
Mother shares raw photographs taken after she gave birth to her son in just 20 minutes while sitting on the toilet at home – and says she feels ’empowered’ by the images By Chole Morgan, MailonlionePublished on April 9, 2020 WPNote to WPSD Alumnus: Zane Noschese is WPSD Graduate of 2007. His wife, Brittany shares…
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Deaf model, actor Nyle DiMarco surprises students
Model, actor and deaf advocate Nyle DiMarco brought his message of self love and acceptance to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf on Friday as part of a celebration of the school’s 150th anniversary. DiMarco, who was born deaf, surprised students at the Edgewood school, signing on stage for about 40 minutes before touring…
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Post-Gazette: WPSD celebrates 150 years
In the summer of 1868, historical documents state that “a little deaf and dumb colored boy was brought” to the Mission Sabbath School connected to the Third United Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. Staff didn’t know how to educate the boy, Henry Bell, who appeared to be about 6 years old. School superintendent Joel Kerr researched…
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WPSD celebrate historic soccer, volleyball champs
Students at the Western Pennsylvania School of the Deaf had a lot to cheer about Thursday as they celebrated the school’s championship volleyball and soccer teams. Teammates ran into the gym holding their trophies to the roar of the crowd. “Truly, it’s indescribable, the feeling, and you can see it on the cameras,” Valentine Wojton…
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2018 graduates high-5 their way to commencement
The 2018 graduates of Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf high-fived teachers and students while marching through the halls of their school on Thursday. The event is an annual tradition for WPSD, located in Edgewood. Established in 1869, the non-profit, tuition-free school provides academic and extracurricular programs to deaf and hard-of-hearing children from birth…
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A battle beneath the rainbows
BY STEPH CHAMBERS, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In Focus. In sports, there’s nothing more inspirational than a comeback win. Ok, throw in a double rainbow. Then there really is nothing more dramatic. Though Plants and Pillars Homeschool Co-op scored first and dominated most of the game, The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf scored with four minutes…
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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…