NORAVERSE ACADEMY FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING
A Place to Learn, Create, and Belong.
We are building an ASL-centered educational option in South Florida where Deaf and hard of hearing students can learn through a visual, accessible approach designed around how they experience the world—building strong academics while exploring the arts, sciences, technology, and what excites them about learning.
Strong Foundations
More Ways to Explore
A Local Choice
ASL, English literacy, accessible instruction, and respect for Deaf culture.
Art, science, technology, movement, and hands-on discovery.
Another educational option for Deaf and hard of hearing families in South Florida.
A Strong Foundation.
A Broader Possibility.
Rooted in Deaf Education. Built for the Future.
NADHH is building on generations of knowledge, experience, and established practices in Deaf education. Our planned educational approach centers on accessible communication, ASL-first learning, English literacy, strong academics, and respect for Deaf culture, identity, and community.
Our vision brings technology, visual and performing arts, science, movement, and hands-on exploration into everyday learning. Through creative projects and real-world experiences, students will have opportunities to experiment, solve problems, collaborate, and discover what excites them.
With ASL at the heart of our learning community, we are creating a place where academic growth, creativity, and connection come together—a place where Deaf and Hard of Hearing children can learn, communicate, create, and belong.
A New Choice for South Florida Families
Families of Deaf and hard of hearing children deserve educational choices that recognize their children’s language, strengths, interests, and potential. We are working to create another option here in South Florida—one shaped by strong educational foundations and enriched by the arts, science, and technology.
Why We’re Building NADHH
My son Aron was born Deaf, and our journey through education has not always been easy. There have been times when getting him to attend school has been a struggle. Toward the end of his fifth-grade year, there were several days when he simply refused to go. At his fifth-grade graduation, he seemed happy and excited, so I hoped that moving on to middle school might give him a fresh start.
We had already been planning and working on NADHH for months. The vision was to create a school where Deaf and hard of hearing children would actually look forward to coming every day, with less pressure centered around testing and more focus on making learning engaging and fun. I want children to learn through creativity, technology, art, science, movement, exploration, and hands-on experiences, with ASL at the center of their education.
Originally, I planned to take more time to develop the school. When I was told there would be a Deaf cluster at Seminole Middle School, I thought that would give me the time I needed. Aron could attend Seminole while I continued working toward opening NADHH. But after taking a tour and attending the open house with him, Aron told me yet again that he did not want to go to school there.
As his mother, I had to listen to what he was telling me. I made one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made and decided to homeschool him while I continue preparing to open NADHH in the summer of 2027. It wasn't the path I had originally planned for this year, but it made the reason for building this school even clearer to me.
I want to create the kind of place I have been searching for as Aron's mother: a place where ASL is first, where Deaf and hard of hearing children can communicate directly with one another, and where they can learn in ways that are visual, creative, tactile, technological, and fun. I want them to be challenged academically without feeling that their entire education revolves around testing. I want them to explore the arts, science, technology, movement, and the world around them while building strong academic and English literacy skills.
I know there is no single educational choice that is right for every Deaf or hard of hearing child. I am not building NADHH because I believe everything about the existing system is wrong. I am building it because I believe families need more choices.
Aron is the reason this became so personal for me, but NADHH is not being built just for Aron. I want to create a place for other Deaf and hard of hearing children who may also be struggling to find where they belong—a school where they can have fun, make friends, feel understood, and want to learn. I want to build a school where our children look forward to coming every day.
