Hello, my name is Gabriella Escobar! I am student at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania, and I am excited to be a Literacy Development intern at Deaf Open World. My main internship project will be to create a storybook which both establishes a strong relationship with reading, and fosters early language learning. What’s really exciting to me so far is that I’ve been talking to a lot of great new people: on my campus at school, personal friends and family, even some random s

Monday, September 5th marked the beginning of what I deem to be a challenging but hopefully impactful experience. As a Social Media/Digital Storytelling Intern for Deaf Open World, my responsibilities range from supporting social media development and increasing awareness and advocacy to writing narratives and stories and creating info-graphics, briefs, flyers or other digital media to share. This week was the beginning of that journey. Most of the time this week was spent fa