Deaf ASL teacher provides real world learning for her students. Sarah Haven was born deaf and her first launge was ASL. She went to a hearing school. Just because she was deaf did not mean she did not have hearing friends; she had plenty of friends. She had to try extra hard because she was going to a hearing school. " My family taught me how to communicate with people, Haven said." She probbaly used home signs in school and at home. A home sign is a gesture that is used to comunicate with people who dont know sign. " I want to help my community be a strong deaf community and have strong connections and interactions with the hearing community."   

 

Haven teaches ASL three at Mason high school. Student half to first take ASL one then ASL two to get the one in a life time appertunity to have a deaf teacher and be able to talk to her. I am in ASL one and Haven comes in every monday and friday and talks to us about continuing with ASL. She really cares about her deaf comunity and really wants to do everything she can to help the deaf comunity and the comunity of Mason.