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Mission

The NTID Department of Liberal Studies (DLS) provides opportunities for all students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to reach their academic potential and become responsible, global citizens and life-long learners. Faculty meet the needs of students through a variety of communication strategies in direct instruction as well as offering a unique approach to educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts (CLA). Instruction is provided in reading, writing and critical thinking, and DLS faculty partner with their CLA colleagues to teach, tutor and advise students in courses and programs in the various departments of the College of Liberal Arts.

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  • Flying Words Project Lands in Italy
    Posted 1/16/2012

    In addition to his teaching duties at NTID, Kenny Lerner, who is hearing, also creates ASL poetry with a deaf collaborator and RIT alum, Peter Cook under the name “Flying Words Project.” Together the two have created a rich and vital form of performance art combining ASL signing, mime, movement and spoken word, and have performed across the United States.
     

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