Unlike full-faced masks usually used in Ms. Bohovesky's workshops, these had to be half-faced so the hearing-impaired students could read lips.

OSD provided 2,506 direct services to deaf or hearing-impaired students and 14,847 contacts of families, schools, and hearing impaired organizations.

Now 15 and a ninth-grader, she is back in public school, maintaining a B average in a program for hearing-impaired students conducted in English.

Pembroke provides specialist education for a small number of hearing-impaired students, with the school's "Hearing Unit".

And for the hearing-impaired students, the program is special indeed.

At first, she was afraid the workfare assignment would interfere with her classes and her plan to become a teacher of hearing-impaired students.

Her mother, a speech pathologist, taught hearing-impaired students in East Meadow, L.I.

In the 1990s, "Deaf College Bowl" for university teams with hearing-impaired students emerged.

It contains a Hearing Support Unit for hearing-impaired students and a multi-purpose centre.

Alumni found that the school had been reflecting the same failures that had left hearing-impaired students behind both academically and socially nationwide.