Penelope O'Brien
August 2024
Congratulations to Penelope O'Brien, our August 2024 Rising Star!
Penelope O'Brien was nominated by Karla Knight who had the following to say:
“Penelope is in a 1/2-day Preschool program with pull-out Deaf/Hard of Hearing services for 45 minutes a day 4 days a week; she is currently 4 years old. This little bundle of energy and joy has learned ALL 26 letters of the alphabet and the additional long vowels in visual phonics!!! She has a severe hearing difference bilaterally but can also produce all the sounds of the 26 letters and 5 vowels. She is starting to decode words and will use the visual phonics signs when sounding out those letters...then she is putting those sounds together to make the word. She gets SO excited when she is able to match that word to a picture and learn the sign for that word if she doesn't already know it. She is such a delight and watching her grow and learn just melts my heart on a daily basis. I am incredibly excited to continue to watch her bloom and grow!” :)