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09-02-2016, 09:47 AM
Boy wins award for learning sign language to help a school friend
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**w this is what friends are for. Ross Kelly, a year six student at Amaroo School in Canberra, Australia has been recognised with a Fred Hollows Humanity Award (http://www.hollows.org/fredhollowshumanityaward) for going above and beyond when it came to helping a fellow classmate, Isam Gurung.
SEE ALSO: A 10-year-old girl is teaching her deaf puppy commands in sign language (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/deaf-puppy-sign-language-commands/)
Gurung, who is profoundly deaf, moved to the school from a specialist school around a year ago. Initially very shy and **t keen on attending class, Kelly was determined to find a way to help the new student settle in.
"We started out writing **tes to each other and I decided this wasn't very efficient because there was always a delay," Kelly told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-01/humanity-award-for-boy-who-learnt-sign-language-to-help-friend/7806050). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/02/award-sign-language-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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**w this is what friends are for. Ross Kelly, a year six student at Amaroo School in Canberra, Australia has been recognised with a Fred Hollows Humanity Award (http://www.hollows.org/fredhollowshumanityaward) for going above and beyond when it came to helping a fellow classmate, Isam Gurung.
SEE ALSO: A 10-year-old girl is teaching her deaf puppy commands in sign language (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/deaf-puppy-sign-language-commands/)
Gurung, who is profoundly deaf, moved to the school from a specialist school around a year ago. Initially very shy and **t keen on attending class, Kelly was determined to find a way to help the new student settle in.
"We started out writing **tes to each other and I decided this wasn't very efficient because there was always a delay," Kelly told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-01/humanity-award-for-boy-who-learnt-sign-language-to-help-friend/7806050). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/02/award-sign-language-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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