DENVER — In honor of Disability Awareness Month, Denver7 is sharing the uplifting story of a former Denver Public Schools (DPS) student who returned to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center Program (D/HH) at Lowry Elementary School as a paraprofessional.

According to Ashley West, the low-incidence disabilities manager with DPS, the D/HH program used to be at Carson Elementary School but moved to Lowry Elementary School to provide more access across the district. Students are helped with their academic and communication needs with teachers of the deaf, paraprofessionals, and interpreters in classrooms.

"For the deaf and hard of hearing community, knowing somebody else who has hearing loss, knowing somebody else who communicates the same way as you, it's really important," West said. "So i

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