Reid Spring is a first grader at Campton Elementary School in Campton, New Hampshire. He has a classmate named Ben — a seven-year-old who is deaf and has other special needs. Ben is the only deaf student in his entire school district. New Hampshire is one of the few states in the country without a dedicated school for the deaf, which meant that when Ben showed up to first grade, there was essentially no one in that building he could talk to.
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