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Fremont seventh-grader starts ASL club, describes life as a deaf student
Summary
Seventh-grader McKenna Stilwell told listeners at Fremont Junior High that she was born profoundly deaf, received speech therapy after getting hearing aids, and launched an American Sign Language club that now has 20 members.
McKenna Stilwell, a seventh-grader at Fremont Junior High, described growing up “profoundly deaf” and said she helped start an American Sign Language club at her school that now includes 20 students.
Stilwell said her mother learned of her deafness a few months after she was born. “I was born profoundly deaf,” Stilwell said. She described having “this, like, thing…
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