Richard B. Primack/Special to the Tab
For Kellie Meehan’s daughter Jenna, a seventh-grader at F.A. Day Middle School who is deaf, Newton’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program is a perfect fit.
The regional program at Day and Newton North High School had been supervised and run by the EDCO Collaborative. However, the future of the program was in doubt when EDCO announced that it was dissolving. Luckily, the CAPS Collaborative agreed to take over the program starting the 2021-2022 academic year.
Jenna Meehan is classified as deaf and has a cochlear implant. She communicates primarily with American Sign Language, and can also use spoken English as a back-up. Newton’s program provides her with an American Sign Language interpreter so she can participate in classroom activities. She is mainstreamed in three of her four subjects and is doing well.