April 3, 2014
Baltimore Jewish Times
Story and photo by Melissa Gerr
Kindergarteners learn American Sign Language for holiday
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Judy Harrow, assistant teacher at the Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC, shares her knowledge of American Sign Language with students year round. To commemorate the end of Jewish Disability Awareness Month, Harrow and teacher Barbara Stadd invited Leah Caplan, a hard-of-hearing member of the Jewish community, into the classroom to teach signs specific for the Passover holiday.
Caplan signed and spoke as she taught the class of 5- and 6-year-olds words for
