DEAF AWARENESS MONTH
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Friends, supporters and others joined yesterday morning in Tafuna for the “Deaf Awareness WAVE” after September was named “Deaf Awareness Month”. Headed by the Health Department’s Helping Babies Hear office, it is hosting an open-house on Sept. 16th and includes free...

![The kick-off WAVE celebrating Deaf Awareness in September with attendees from the Department of Health, Tafuna Elementary Deaf Class/Educator, deaf adults, and parents of deaf children. [courtesy photo] Deaf Awareness Month wave in front of McDonald's](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/deaf_awareness_2578.jpg?itok=DGwz4_lj)