Students from Utah Schools for Deaf and Blind walk legislators through their world

Laura Seitz, Deseret News

Emory Jensen, a fifth grader at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, assists Sen. Daniel McCay, R-Riverton, as he wears occluders and walks with a cane at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. Each year, students from the school take their classrooms to the Capitol to thank legislators in person for providing funds their schools and statewide programs. This year, 40 students taught officials a few new skills that can help them communicate with people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired or deaf-blind. “In the past, the legislators have enjoyed being able to stop by and observe a lesson underway with the highly specialized teachers for these unique students. But this year, the students wanted to turn things around a bit. Instead of sitting in a lesson, they wanted to give the lesson to the lawmakers,” Joel Coleman, the school’s superintendent, said in a statement.

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