{"id":19424,"date":"2012-07-29T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=19424"},"modified":"2012-07-29T06:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:21:06","slug":"deaf-binghamton-woman-thankful-for-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/deaf-binghamton-woman-thankful-for-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Binghamton woman thankful for friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deaf Binghamton woman thankful for friends<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 26, 2012<\/p>\n

Born deaf, Nissaura Soto-Diaz couldn\u2019t communicate with the children
\naround her.<\/p>\n

For the first 13 years of her life, she felt isolated and very much
\nalone.<\/p>\n

When asked about her childhood, Nissaura, now 18, makes the motion for
\ncrying.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was sad,\u201d said her mom, Rosaura Soto-Lally. \u201cShe had no friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denise Osterhout, who teaches the deaf in Binghamton city schools,
\nwatched kids try to reach out to Nissaura, practicing their signing
\nskills in an attempt to talk to her. But instead, they inadvertently
\nupset her when she couldn\u2019t figure out what they were trying to say.<\/p>\n

As Nissaura got older, she got more and more frustrated, sometimes
\nacting out in rage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried counseling, we tried everything,\u201d Osterhout said. \u201cBut she
\nneeded to meet those social needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Nissaura knew of only two other deaf children, and they
\nboth moved away. So with the blessing and support of the Binghamton
\nschool district, Nissaura looked elsewhere for her education \u2014 and for
\nfriends.<\/p>\n

\u201cNissaura was in 10th grade when she began commuting more than 150
\nmiles every week to receive her education at the Rochester School for
\nthe Deaf,\u201d said Frank A. Kruppenbacher, a staff member at RSD.<\/p>\n

She\u2019d rise at 3:30 every Monday morning to catch a bus that would take
\nher on a three-hour drive to the school. She\u2019d attend classes by day
\nand sleep in a dorm room by night. Every Friday she\u2019d board a bus and
\ncome back home, eager to share tales of her adventures with her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody, even the ones doing the cleaning and working in the
\nkitchen, talked sign,\u201d Rosaura said. So did all the kids Nissaura\u2019s
\nage. For the first time in her life, she had peers with whom she could
\nfreely communicate.<\/p>\n

She went to the school prom. Twice.<\/p>\n

The girl who had been miserable in Binghamton became a manager for the
\nRSD girls\u2019 varsity basketball team and thrived in her new world. Her
\npersonality bloomed, and she graduated in June. Like any other
\n18-year-old girl, she now chats for hours, her hands flying as she
\ngossips with friends who live all over the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexting, her video phone and her computer are her life,\u201d said her
\nmother.<\/p>\n

RSD taught Nissaura the educational basics, as well as food-service
\nskills, honoring her with its Career Development and Occupational
\nStudies Most Outstanding Student Award. But now that she understands
\nlife\u2019s many potentials, she\u2019s got her eye on another career path. This
\nfall, she\u2019ll attend the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf
\n(SWCID) at Howard County Junior College in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be a paraprofessional, teaching,\u201d she wrote. Not only deaf
\nkids, but those with hearing, too.<\/p>\n

But she won\u2019t be coming back to Binghamton.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlorida,\u201d she said. She knows many deaf people in Florida, she signs.
\nShe now understands that in order to be happy, she needs a social
\nnetwork of others who are deaf \u2014 and she promised herself she\u2019ll never
\nbe without one again.<\/p>\n

Valerie Zehl can be contacted at vzehl@gannett.com<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/article\/20120726\/NEWS01\/307260079\/Finding-her-place-world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deaf Binghamton woman thankful for friends July 26, 2012 Born deaf, Nissaura Soto-Diaz couldn\u2019t communicate with the children around her. For the first 13 years of her life, she felt isolated and very much alone. When asked about her childhood,…<\/p>\n

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