Will This Deaf Teen Be Able to Do It?

If life is challenging for deaf people with no additional issues, imagine what it is like for a deaf person with developmental disability, autism, and mental illness. One such person is featured in the Orlando Sentinel. She is a young 19-year-old who has to leave where she has been living, to live in a group home in another city, where access to sign language is limited. Additional services are also limited. On top of that, she doesn't have any parents to help her make the adjustment, only grandparents, due to the earlier murder of her parents.

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