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Hearing impared Missourians gave the deaf and hard of hearing a voice in a Missouri House hearing to not be left behind in education. |
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Wrap: The House Committee on Disability Services heard testimony on a measure to endorse the Missouri Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children's Bill of Rights.
The resolution would endorse hearing impared children in Missouri schools have access to services they need for an equal education.
This includes providing interpretors in the classroom and an environment where the students can be comfortable and excel.
Executive Director of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ernest Garrett says this is a step in the right direction.
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| Description: This is an opportunity for Missouri... Show-Me-State, mind you... to take the lead in creating and sustaining systematic improvements in terms of the provision of deaf educational services. | |
No one spoke in opposition at the hearing.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Cole Karr.
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Missouri deaf and hard of hearing rights advocates pushed a children's bill of rights in a Missouri House committee today. |
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Wrap: The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children's Bill of Right would endorse guidelines for services to Missouri hearing impared students.
Schools would have to provide services such as interpretors and activities with deaf and hard of hearing peers in a school setting.
Saint Louis Democratic Representative Genise Montecillo says she likes the idea of improving the environment for the students.
She speaks from her experience as a St. Louis educator.
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| Description: We have great interpreters. But, even still with that, we face, particularly at the high school level, students who don't want their interpreters at high school because they're embarrassed or because they are being made fun of, or they aren't wearing their hearing aids and such. I think that just highlights that we've got a lot to do so that everybody's accepted and has equal access. | |
No one spoke in opposition.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Cole Karr.