Get in touch with Alumni Members. In 1970, Warren Schwab established and founded a small school for the deaf in the St. Thank you.
Stephen's Rectory and Parish in the downtown Framingham. He intended it to be a place for the deaf children to gather and get learning experience to prepare themselves for the life ahead of them. Two years later, in the month of September 1972, the school got bigger and needed more space as Schwab moved the gathering place for the deaf children to the hilltop by Central and Kellogg Streets just mi
nutes away from the first and original location. For last thirty-nine years, this school flourished and evolved into a 14-acre campus where 200-plus students come to get their invaluable education and personal growth. The students come to make lifelong friends and discover their identities as they grow up at this school. The school turned out to be one of the first few to establish and incorporate bilingual-bicultural philosophy and became to be the best in the Northeast. Recently the school's ASL department was picked to develop the ASL curriculum along with a few schools around the country, reclaiming the status as one of the leaders of american sign language education in this country.
...and here it is, The Learning Center for the Deaf. In 1984, TLC proudly graduated their first senior class. Fourteen students graduated and to keep the concept of lifelong friends intact-the alumni association was established by Jane Botti. Tom McKnight will be developing a newsletter in which would be sent periodically to all alumni members. If you want to hear updates and news from The Learning Center and the TLC alumni association, please send a email to Tom at [email protected].
