“My daughter was born on April 21st 1995, in a small village in Soc Trang, Vietnam. When she was seven months old my wife and I traveled to Vietnam to bring our adopted daughter home. We named her Erin.
Texas School for the Deaf has over 10,000 students and alumni. Every one of them is a human being with so much to contribute to the world. Every one of them has a story.
“After we arrived home, we read all the latest parenting books, checked her development, and performed little tests. Months went by, and I began to suspect something was not right. I began observing Erin’s hearing capabilities more closely. Sometimes she would respond to conditional noises, other times she would not. In August of 1996 at 16 months of age, it was discovered my daughter was profoundly deaf.”
Being deaf isn’t like any other disability. Because you are literally locked off from communication, it takes a special environment to educate deaf students, and to help them grow.
“Through the educators, community and culture at Texas School for the Deaf, my daughter found positive role models, support, information, activities and a sense of belonging.”
We have a long history of successes in education and our alumni network is loyal and close-knit. Texas School for the Deaf administration, faculty and staff are as dedicated as any educators anywhere-hearing or deaf-and many are alumni of TSD. They understand the challenges, the relish in the culture, they become powerful role models.
“When I look into my daughter’s future, I see her walking across the stage at a leading university. I see my daughter as a community leader – perhaps a director of a Deaf community.”
Texas School for the Deaf is a premier choice for education, life skills and personal growth. A place designed to help your child live up to his or her potential. And create an environment where deaf students can truly live, grow and belong.
“She will blaze new frontiers. There will be hardship and sorrow, there will be joy and exultation. But I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, she will be prepared for life.” -Joel Craig
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How to use TSDF Crowdfunding?
This page is so you can know how to input your own content, video, and images in your individual crowdfunding page.
You already have your own login and password for you to control the content, video, and pictures of your minigrant project. You will be able to edit anything on your personal page except for the request amount of funding – it will be locked and the same from what you originally requested.
It is a very simple process. To start, click My Projects > Edit. We’ve already created short and long descriptions for your pages, but you are free to change or edit as you wish. There are four main areas of your web content:
1) Project Short Description
2) Project Long Description
3) Video Embed Link
4) Images
The short description is text that is only one-two sentences and will be the summary of your fundraising goal. It will be featured just above the donation link on the sidebar.
The long description is the main content of your page. It will be a few paragraphs long. If you want to add images to your main content, you can do so. To do this, click the media button and upload the images. You can place them anywhere within your long description.
The Video Embed Link is where you put in the video for your project.
We encourage you to create a video using your iPad or iPhone, edit it, and upload to your YouTube channel. If you do not know how to do this, find someone within TSD who can. There are certainly plenty of YouTubers around! When you have finished uploading your video, you will see a “Share” button just under your video. Copy that link and input it in the Video Embed Link and then your video will be up on your page.
You will see the Featured Image at the bottom of your post, and that is where you change your image for the featured image. This is the main image, so choose a nice and eye-catching one.
The content and video for your pages are due January 8 and after review, will go live on January 12.
We encourage you to think outside of the box and be creative in how you want to raise the funds. Don’t just stop at posting on Facebook – you can contact your family, friends, local businesses, or any other avenue that you can think of.
If your project is not fully funded by the deadline of June 5, the money will still be allocated to your project and you will have to reduce the items requested. Naturally, a fully funded project will be submitted to you upon reaching the goal.