Forest Lake Area High School senior Emily Hekele has often struggled with having appropriate accommodations in her classes when it comes to her hearing disability. But now, she has been given a tool that will allow her to take hold of her own learning and accommodations when she enters college in the fall.
Hekele will be distributing a video she has created to her college professors that will educate them on what accommodations will help her learn and grow in their class. This was all made possible by The Education Foundation of the Forest Lake Area grant given to the Forest Lake Area Schools in Dec. 2016.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The Deaf and Hard of Hearing program serves approximately 31 deaf and hard of hearing students and is made up of about 10 teachers, interpreters and other staff members. One goal of the program is to provide equal access to deaf or hard of hearing
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