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Grant to help hearing-impaired children learn to read
Gainesville resident to help create research center
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Susan Easterbrooks, a Gainesville resident and Georgia State University professor, works with Tyson Terry at the university’s child development center. - photo by MEG BUSCEMA
Learning to read presents special challenges to children who are deaf or hard of hearing, but a recently awarded grant could help those students read on the same grade level as their hearing peers. Georgia State University special education professors Susan Easterbrooks, a longtime Gainesville resident, and Amy Lederberg have been awarded a $10 million grant to create the first national research center aimed at improving reading for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The grant comes from the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Cherokee Bluff High coach charged with DUI, going 94 in a 70-mph zone
JOSHUA TRAVIS
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Cherokee Bluff High School’s boys basketball coach was charged last week with driving under the influence, going 94 mph in a 70-mph zone and failing to yield to an emergency vehicle on Interstate 985, according to court documents
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