Feelings From Loss

In Support of Deaf Hospice

(l to r) Relief, Grief, Guilt, Trust, Anger, Dying, Accept

All sculptures have Braille on back.

Deaf Hospice Training Program in Minnesota

About 28 million people in the US have a hearing loss--of these, 4 to 5 million are profoundly deaf. About one-half to 2 million use ASL as their primary mode of communication.

As of April 1998 the National Hospice Organization (NHO) reported that of approximately 3,200 operational or planned hospices programs, only 2 hospices have programs serving deaf, hard-of-hearing and deaf/blind people--New York & Kentucky. We in Minnesota are creating the third. How about your community?

-----Helene E.R. Oppenheimer