Sunday, March 4, 2012

Preschool has special focus: Stark program, one of two in Ohio, prepares those with hearing aids to enter regular classes.

Byline: Rick Armon

May 11--CANTON TWP. -- Four-year-old Ben Bravis has two hearing aids that tightly wrap around his ears.

They are his link to our audio world.

But sometimes, his mother discovered, he would return home from preschool with the hearing aids turned off.

Janette Bravis didn't know what to think. "I would wonder how lost he felt all day," she said.

That's why the Bethlehem Township parent enrolled her son in a new program at Prairie College Elementary School designed for hearing-impaired children. Dubbed SPEAK and run by the Stark County Educational Service Center, it's only the second of its kind in a public school …

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