Sign of the Times

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Deaf-education departments find new uses for online videoconferencing

In a computer laboratory here one recent afternoon, four high-school students are deep in excited, one-on-one conversations with tutors.

One girl laughs and, a few minutes later, asks her tutor for help with math homework. Two boys mug a bit for one of the tutors.

But each is silent.

They are students at the Delaware School for the Deaf, and their conversations with their tutors, deaf-education

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