VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 4
On another day, as a follow-up to the conversation above, Erica McKinney
and Stephanie Garrett sat down with Ivey to ask some additional questions.
Mrs. McKinney: How do you feel when Mrs. Stephanie is not here at
school with you?
Ivey: I feel sad.
Mrs. McKinney: Why?
Ivey: Ms. Stephanie helps me learn and talk.
Mrs. McKinney: How do you feel when someone can't sign to/with you ?
Ivey: I feel sad.
Mrs. McKinney: Why?
Ivey: I want to sign to my friends.
Mrs. McKinney: You have Mrs. Stephanie who's with you all day and
your friends don't have a Mrs. Stephanie. Do you feel Mrs. Stephanie gets in
the way?
Ivey: No, I like Mrs. Stephanie with me.
Stephanie Garrett, Deafblind Intervener Specialist, Floyd County
Schools, Rome, Georgia
Meeting Ivey for the first time in person, I was excited and scared at the
same time. I had known about Ivey since the day she was born. Her older brother
was in my classroom in a weekday preschool where I taught, and I followed Ivey's
