Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• 1: Home
• 2: About Us
  • 2.1: Our Beliefs
• 3: The School
  • 3.1: Parent Infant Program
  • 3.2: Early Childhood
  • 3.3: Elementary Program
  • 3.4: Secondary Program
    • 3.4.1: English Language Arts
    • 3.4.2: Social Studies
    • 3.4.3: Mathematics
    • 3.4.4: Technical and Transitional Services
    • 3.4.5: Transitional Services
• 4: The Evaluation Unit
  • 4.1: Overview
  • 4.2: Facilitator
  • 4.3: Behavior Specialist
  • 4.4: Diagnostic Teacher
  • 4.5: Hispanic Liaison
  • 4.6: Physical Therapist
  • 4.7: Registered School Nurse
  • 4.8: School Psychologist
  • 4.9: Social Worker
  • 4.10: Speech and Language Therapist
  • 4.11: Vision Specialist
• 5: Programs
  • 5.1: Successful Deaf Leaders
  • 5.2: ScanWorks
  • 5.3: Girl Power
  • 5.4: Summer Works Program
  • 5.5: Technology Goes Home
• 6: Archives
• 7: Contribute
  • 7.1: The Golf Benefit
  • 7.2: Advisory Board
  • 7.3: Wish List

Stephanie Clark

Professional Development Trainer
Sorenson Communications
2008 Recipient

Successes

Stephanie values education and has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, a Master’s Degree in Education, and has completed one year of study for her PhD in Linguistics. In addition, she studied for three years to become a Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI) and has been working in this field for the past fourteen years. In 1995 she helped to found Deaf Women United (DWU) in Massachusetts, and she is very proud of that. She later joined and became a board member and secretary of MSAD.

Challenges

Communicating with people who do not know sign language has always been a challenge, especially in group settings where conversation is difficult to follow. She is happy to have so many devices that help with communication, for example, closed captioning, videophones, and pagers.

Advice to Horace Mann Students

“Think about your future. Even though your ideas and dreams may change, follow your heart and don’t give up. It may be difficult, but it is important to be open to new things and new challenges.”