USM Transfer Student Overcomes Disabilities, Pursuing Support from MS Hearing-Vision Project

HDC Louisiana DeafBlind Project wishes to share the inspiring story of Willicia McClendon, a University of Southern Mississippi transfer student who is profoundly deaf and also has night and peripheral vision problems. McClendon sought out the help of the Mississippi Hearing and Vision Project (MSHVP), Mississippi’s equivalent of LADBP, and after graduation, she plans to open a daycare center for children who are DeafBlind like her.