Content Preview
Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here
School for deaf's program helps bully victims
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Principal Kathleen Kerzner, center, signs with deaf pre-school children during a lesson on kindness. (Dec. 8, 2010)
Videos
Clinton Releases Anti-bullying Web Message
Group takes aim at cyberbullying
School Bullying: A Parents Nightmare?
Galleries
Alexis Pilkington mourned
When a deaf student bullies another using sign language, one insult hits deepest: the one meaning "you're worthless, you're nothing."
The phrase is expressed in sign by wiggling both hands at hip level with index fingers and thumbs forming a circle, the other fingers outstretched. Teachers at the Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf in Nassau County know to look out for it.
Last year,...
Newsday & ExploreLI are now available at no charge to Newsday 7-day and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.
