Meteorologist Does Weather Report in Sign Language So More People Can Understand

February 7, 2022

Mikayla Smith is a senior at Oklahoma University and works weekends at a local television station in Texas. She recognized that many people get their breaking news from social media, which doesn’t always have reliable closed captioning for members of the deaf community or those who are hard of hearing, so Mikayla started "Signing Science with Smith," giving weather updates and science tidbits that are accessible to both the deaf and the hearing.

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