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In partnership with Serve Wyoming – Student Learning Initiative, Emergency Medical Students and American Sign Language students at Casper College worked together to learn more about deafness. The training involved local deaf community members in simulation activities where the EMS students interacted and cared for deaf patients. The simulation activities help prepare up-and-coming first responders for caring for this patient demographic. Above and to the right: Tia Iedema, Kaela Lundstrom, and Dawson Butler practice sign language with instructor Gail Schenfisch. To the left, Raghuram Prasad, Kevin Tomphson, and Dawson Butler work with a deaf volunteer.