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HERALD VoL. 31 No. 20
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MAY 9 - 15, 2024
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For Taylor Parides, it’s all in the hands
After graduating from Baldwin High School in 2020, Parides faced several challengTaylor Parides discovered es, she said. During her first her passion for American Sign year of college, she encounLanguage as a sophomore at tered limitations on various Baldwin High School in 2017, fronts, particularly in social interactions, due to the conwhere she met her first deaf person, who happened to be her straints imposed by the Covidteacher. 19 pandemic. “He exposed me to more “It was a bit of a rough than just ASL,” she said about start,” she said, “going to a colher ASL teacher, lege and trying to Brynjar Leifsson. lear n a new lan“It’s always cool to guage on a computs e e p e o p l e, yo u er instead of, you know, communicatknow, in person.” ing with their Once Covid hands and their restrictions began bodies, but he to be lifted, she s h owe d m e t h a t started to grasp the there is more to the immense size of deaf community the deaf communithan that. It realty at RIT. ly is a culture and a NTID is one of community.” nine colleges on the Parides, a Baldcampus and serves win native, is set to TAYLoR PARIDES as the hub for the g r a d u a t e f r o m Baldwin native largest technologiRochester Institute cal college in the of Technology with world catering to a bachelor’s degree in Ameri- deaf and hard-of-hearing stucan Sign Language and Inter- dents. With more than 1,000 preting Education on May 10. deaf students enrolled, it has In addition, she will deliver the earned its reputation as the commencement speech for the most accessible college for the National Technical Institute for deaf and hard-of-hearing. the Deaf, also known as NTID, While on campus, Parides which is nestled on the RIT Continued on page 5 campus.
By HERNESTo GALDAMEZ
hgaldamez@liherald.com
Maureen Lennon//Herald
Cleaning up Baldwin LIRR station Members of the Baldwin Lions Club and volunteers joined forces to beautify the Baldwin LIRR station by engaging in a collective effort to clean up the surroundings and plant flowers on May 4th. Story, additional photos, Page 10.
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eaf people can absolutely do everything that hearing people can do except for hearing.