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Show Woman honored for efforts Shirley Snow, a rehabilitation technician at the Utah Community Center for the Deaf in Bountiful for the past two years, was honored by the Utah State Board of Education during its meeting in Salt Lake City for saving the life of the one-year-old child of deaf parents in Farm-ington Farm-ington on the afternoon of last July 19. According to James Hilber, State Specialist for the Deaf-Hearing Impaired, Im-paired, Division of Rehabilitation Services, Barry Leirr, the son of Patrick and Julie Lein, had managed man-aged to get hold of his father's medicine and to swallow enough to turn blue-unconscious. The frantic parents dialed the local Davis County emergency but were hung up on because it did not have telecommunications tele-communications (TDD) access for the deaf. Desperate, the Leins then contacted con-tacted the Deaf Center and reached Snow who personally rushed to ' their home, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Barry, and succeeded suc-ceeded in reviving him. The parents credit Snow with the quick thinking and skill that saved their son's life. "Shirley had just completed a first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation re-suscitation course at the American Red Cross," explained Hilber. "I'm sure she did not realize her training would fill so vital a need so soon. This experience gives new importance to the bill passed by the 1987 Legislature to fund telecommunications-telephone access for the deaf at all health and other pub-I pub-I lie service facilities." |