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'Believe In Yourself' Quilt Inspires Deaf Students - Livingston, NJ Patch
Twenty-year-old Regina Vaccaro of Livingston is leaving a permanent message for other students who are deaf and hearing impaired at The Lake Drive School in Mountain Lakes. “Stay in school, continue to learn, and believe in yourself,” she says in her colorful “Believe In Yourself” quilt that now greets more than 100 students daily as they hop off their busses from 11 counties all over northern and central Jersey and enter the school.
But Vaccaro, who started at Lake Drive as a preschooler, wasn’t always such a positive student. Pointing to the butterfly on the quilt she explains it’s just like her, transforming into a happier, mature, independent student through learning and support. She spent her last year in the program sewing a quilt to inspire other students who felt challenged by their hearing loss.
When asked what in particular has affected her life, she answers brightly, “Books! I love books!” During the year, Vaccaro worked in the school library and read regularly to a class of six and seven year olds at Lake Drive School. Next year she will return to work at the school library part time and hopes to get a job in a public library.
The Lake Drive Programs for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Mountain Lakes offers New Jersey’s most comprehensive continuum of learning opportunities for children with hearing loss from birth to high school graduation. For more information call (973) 299-0166 or visit Lake Drive Program: Individual Child... Individual Potential.
Twenty-year-old Regina Vaccaro of Livingston is leaving a permanent message for other students who are deaf and hearing impaired at The Lake Drive School in Mountain Lakes. “Stay in school, continue to learn, and believe in yourself,” she says in her colorful “Believe In Yourself” quilt that now greets more than 100 students daily as they hop off their busses from 11 counties all over northern and central Jersey and enter the school.
But Vaccaro, who started at Lake Drive as a preschooler, wasn’t always such a positive student. Pointing to the butterfly on the quilt she explains it’s just like her, transforming into a happier, mature, independent student through learning and support. She spent her last year in the program sewing a quilt to inspire other students who felt challenged by their hearing loss.
When asked what in particular has affected her life, she answers brightly, “Books! I love books!” During the year, Vaccaro worked in the school library and read regularly to a class of six and seven year olds at Lake Drive School. Next year she will return to work at the school library part time and hopes to get a job in a public library.
The Lake Drive Programs for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Mountain Lakes offers New Jersey’s most comprehensive continuum of learning opportunities for children with hearing loss from birth to high school graduation. For more information call (973) 299-0166 or visit Lake Drive Program: Individual Child... Individual Potential.