Students at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf are adjusting to online learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
“The first few weeks were really tough,” Maureen Reilly-Price, a classroom teacher at Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood, said, “but now you can see it’s become more and more natural.”
Online instruction for the everyone started on March 30th, laptops were sent home to most students, elementary, middle school, and high school students.
“Top challenges are reading all of the children and making sure the technology is up and running, many times during the group it freezes, and it’s either frozen for them, or frozen for me – and they miss what I say,”Reilly-Price said. Now they are settled into a groove of using remote online learning but the students are ready to get back to the classroom and offline, “they can’t wait to get off – we really really miss the face to face interaction.”
Paper packets were also made available to those to had weak or no internet access at home.
