Place Haiti

Partner CCD

Age 17

Gender Female

11/9/2016: DOB: 1/13/2007; Very sweet girl. Knows alphabet, colors, likes markers and drawing with them; Interview with child: We came to the school, met by Bernalanges mother, who rode on a horse to visit her with her grandmother. They brought her a lot of food from home to eat. We were able to visit with her, shared some sign language and gestures. We gave her mother a picture sign book to take home to begin learning signs to be able to communicate with her daughter. Her mother is very sweet and loves Bernalange very much. We hope to help her family earn how to communicate with each other. Bernalanges father is a voodoo priest (witch). When I shared that 2 of my children (that live in America) were deaf, she was very surprised. She thought that only in Haiti were their deaf, that they were cursed by this. She has 3 sisters and 2 brothers.