User:Rheagurl19

Rhea Reutirez born Oct. 2, 1989. Rhea is born in Philippines city Baccra. She is full deaf. She was born in the Philippines grown up long stay 11 years age. She lived there for most of my childhood. She went to elementary school. She was the only deaf grow up. she was very lonely. They were boys in the Filipino picked on at she a lot in school. A very aggressive boy used to always took her money. Other kids used to pinch she really hard and run away. She think they did those things because they knew she couldn't tell on them, and she don't know how to sign. She couldn't tell her mom when she felt stressed.

She to Hawaii when she was 12 years old. She went to the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and Blind. She felt very awkward there because she didn't know how to sign language. Everyone was doing something with their hands and she didn't know what they were saying. She learned to sign girl and at first she called everyone girls because she thought it meant people. Everything was going over her head. She used to copy other student's papers. She was only trying to get her work done. She don't do that any more. She knowing sign language had helped her more about History, Science, Math and English. She can now express myself when before she couldn't. When she was 14 years old her uncle started touching her. It hurt me. She hated it. She told her therapist at the deaf school and then she was taken from the home. She didn't want to be taken out. She had many different foster placements. She went from one home to the next. She was went to Queen's Family Treatment Center. After discharge then she went to another foster family. Then she caused trouble at home and school would ignore people, go suspended, then more trouble. She was angry and emotional inside. She was aggressive. Then she went to Kahi Mahalo for 3 months then back to hospital Queen for 9 months same one year 2005. Then she went to a group home but the shut down that house. she was in Julia house, another group home. She went to the HEART program. HEART stands for healing Emotions with Art and Recreation together. She talked to them about how she felt. They told she how they felt. She liked the dance walk hip hop. In the future she want to go to college at KCC for 2 years and then transfer to Gallaudet University in the Washington DC. This is a university for deaf student. S wish she could go to washington DC and seethe school. She want a tutor to help her get ready for college. She love to read books. When she don't know a word then she write it down and look it up in the dictionary. She study hard. She have good grades, mostly A's and B's. She have good behavior improve in the school since. She can control myself out calm.