Preschool at Missouri State Helps Deaf, Hard of Hearing Students Gain Literacy Skills
January 5, 2020
By: Claudette Riley
Source: Springfield News-Leader
Several times a week, Rebecca Mettler makes a 92-mile round-trip to Springfield to take her 4-year-old son to preschool.
“That’s how important it is for us,” she said. “We came and visited before he was 2. We got him on the list.”…
Mettler, a journalist who lives in Sarcoxie, worried that without the preschool, her only son — diagnosed as deaf — would not gain the social, academic and communication skills needed to learn and succeed in school and life.