Dawn graduated in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Communication. She teaches second to fifth graders who are deaf or have hearing difficulties at Mary McArthur Elementary School in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

“It is very exciting to have kids come to my class with a huge deficit in their receptive and expressive language skills, leave my class ready for regular education classes either with some

support or completely independent, and a new confidence in who they are and

who they were created to be.