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University Trains Students to Advocate for Deaf People Worldwide

There are an estimated 360 million deaf people around the world. Rue Winiarzyk is one of them. Growing up in Canada, she attended a school for deaf students, enjoying the advantages of living in a society attuned to the meeting the needs of its disabled citizens. However, she soon learned her experience is far from the reality for deaf people around the world. Winiarzyk was 20 when she traveled to Panama where she expected to experience the culture shock, but not the lack of deaf...


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