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Friday, April 19, 2013
Big Sister's mentoring extends beyond sign language for deaf Newark girl
Gabriela Cevallos manipulated her fingers to form a sentence, and then a story.
She couldn’t really talk to her parents when she was growing up. They didn’t know sign language, and she didn’t speak Spanish.
"I always felt alone," Cevallos said, her hands moving quickly as an interperter kept pace. "It was so upsetting."
http://blog.nj.com/njv_barry_carter/2013/04/mentoring_does_not_have_bounda.html#incart_river_essex
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