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Idaho school to serve deaf, hard-of-hearing preschoolers

Borah Elementary second-grader Lauren Pinney, 7, center, sings and signs during the second-graders’ patriotic concert for fellow students at the school in Coeur d’Alene in 2002. About 15 years later, the school is set to be the first location in North Idaho to offer a Total Communication preschool classroom that will serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children as they prepare for their educational futures. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
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COEUR D’ALENE – Borah Elementary is the first location in North Idaho to offer a Total Communication preschool classroom that will serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children as they prepare for their educational futures.

The Coeur d’Alene Press reported the preschool opens this school year.

Cortney Peters, who has been selected to teach the preschool, is an outreach/preschool teacher for the deaf and hard of hearing through the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind.

Peters will be using “Total Communication” in her instruction, a teaching style that incorporates all means of communication, including formal signs, natural gestures, body language, lip reading and American Sign Language.

The program is four days a week and is free and open to deaf or hard-of-hearing children in any North Idaho county.