Encouraging Signs: Teen and Blind Deaf Man Find Companionship on Airplane

On a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, there was a blind and deaf gentleman named Tim Cook who the flight attendants were having trouble communicating with. Fifteen year-old Clara Daly – who’d been studying American Sign Language (ASL) in school the past year – had always been fascinated by the language and pressed the call button to volunteer. First she asked him if he needed anything. He asked for water.   “I went to [Cook] a total of three times, once to get him water, another to tell him the time, and the last hour of the flight to just talk to him,” Daly told CNN. They chatted animatedly about his previous life as a salesman and what her plans were for the future. “I hope this helps other people realize that in the world we are living in, it is everyone’s duty to help each other out, no matter what,” said Daly.