RIT/NTID project hopes to reduce global deaf literacy gap
Early childhood literacy grant will impact learning in Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji
Early childhood development professionals often face challenges when teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing youth to read. A new project spearheaded by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is hoping to effectively bring literacy education to deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji.
The $300,000 Project TREE (Transforming Reading in Early Education for Deaf Children) grant from the international organization All Children Reading seeks to transform the early-grade reading experience for young deaf and hard-of-hearing children through Sign Language Rhythm and Rhyme, and Shared Multilingual Reading Strategies on the World Around You platform.