Hearing Impaired Students Tell Signing Santa What They Want
- Dec 19, 08
Hearing impaired students at LaSalle Elementary School got a special visitor Thursday, December 18 – a signing Santa Claus. Henry Brinkmann, a hearing impaired volunteer (pictured), dressed as Old St. Nick, handed out candy canes, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas in sign language and took holiday photos with the students. Student Albert Hall (in photo) signed to Santa that he wanted a ball for Christmas.
LaSalle Elementary is where a number of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System’s hearing impaired and deaf signing students are housed. There are about 20 elementaryage students in the program at this location.
Principal Brister in Washington, D.C., to Accept McKinley Middle School’s Second Blue Ribbon Award
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Principal Herman Brister (pictured, left) and the school’s Teacher of the Year, Lynn Williamson (right), were in Washington, D.C., accepting McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School’s National Blue Ribbon Award from U.S. Department of Education’s Director of National Blue Ribbon Schools Program Aba Kumi (center). The event, which recognized some 314 schools from across the United States, was held at the Omni Hotel. Click herefor story.
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