Susan Gershowitz continues to help her high school students present a musical show. In a recent article ‘Language of the deaf’ by Jen Waters that appeared in The Washington Times, Gershowitz’s high school students at Quince Orchard High School present a show called “Music In Motion” to try to make music relevant to the deaf community. The students learn to dance and sign the lyrics to about 29 songs, such as “Help” by the Beatles Gershowitz teaches American Sign Language at the school as well as about 80 hearing high school students at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland. “I feel like I prepare the students to communicate with any deaf person they meet,” she says. She has used American Sign Language since about age 18. She has enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome, which means the channel connecting the inner ear and cranial space has become larger than normal, causing hearing loss. “A hearing loss was first detected when I was 7 from a school hearing test … My hearing deteriorated until I lost all my hearing completely I speak [verbally] because I heard speech for so many years and then wore two hearing aids after becoming deaf. So I have always been able to at least hear my own voice to monitor it. Why I still speak so well is really a mystery.” Gershowitz says English is different fromAmerican Sign Language, which has its own grammar and syntax. “In English you would say, The book is on the chair,”‘ she says. “In American Sign Language, you would say, ‘Book chair on.”‘ For information on Gershowttz’s classes, she can be contacted at [email protected]