From Wizard News:

"Welcome to Hogwarts" is the sign that greets children as they arrive at the Learning Center for the Deaf this week, as they get to live the life of Harry Potter and his friends as part of a special camp.

Camp creator Janey Greenwald and camp director Todd Czubek have run the camp for the past six years. The first four were held in Pennsylvania, where both work at the Scranton State School for the Deaf. Last year, the camp was held in Maine, and they brought it to Framingham for the first time this summer.

They even search for the sorcerer's stone during the camp, Greenwald said. In past years, the hunt posed a big challenge for the children, but this year didn't go quite as planned.

"In the first two minutes after we gave them the clue, they found it," Greenwald said. "We thought they would be looking all week. Now, Professor McGonagall has lost her wand and they need to find it."

The best wizards have supportive parents, Greenwald points out, which translates well into the deaf community.

Finally, she said, both deaf children and wizards face many challenges, but figure out ways to survive and come out OK.