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Families and professionals rely on Clarke Speaks Up to learn about uplifting stories from the Clarke community and up-and-coming news from a leader in the field.
The Clarke Speaks Up blog is the exciting evolution of the annually released Clarke Speaks magazine, allowing Clarke to publish content on a regular basis for our community.
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We asked the Clarke community: What are you grateful for this year?
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Childhood friendships help to establish many of the social intelligence skills and coping mechanisms necessary for success in adulthood.
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Since our founding in 1867, Clarke has prepared children who are deaf or hard of hearing to succeed in mainstream schools and the wider world. But soon after our 50th anniversary, Clarke faced catastrophe.
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For the past 18 years, Melanie has worked as a nurse in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital, ranked the number one pediatric hospital in the country.
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“You never know how important your job is until a situation like this happens,” says Kim Lavender, when asked about her work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“I love my job,” Natalia says. “I want to take care of my grandmas and grandpas and aunties and uncles. But there’s constant worry. I’m afraid. Am I protected enough?”
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When high school sports marketing and management teacher Danny Collins’s school closed in mid-March of 2020, he didn’t realize how long it would last.
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Rabbi Elyssa Cherney was busy running her nonprofit organization, TacklingTorah, when the pandemic took hold in March 2020.
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As an essential worker at Target during the pandemic, Clarke alumnus Jad has become accustomed to taking various precautions to stay safe, protecting himself and those around him.
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CVC Capital Partners offers a donation-matching program for their staff, which was enhanced to contribute to COVID-19-related projects supported by its employees. In the summer of 2020, a CVC staff member selected Clarke New York as a beneficiary of this match.
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When the pandemic set in, brothers Jake and Patrick deHahn talked about their similar experiences being deaf and wearing masks, and they quickly developed an idea.
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