May 12, 2006
The Debate Over Deaf Education
Technological changes are shaking up the teaching of the hearing-impaired
Daniel S. Koo was born deaf. When he was 4 he started attending a public school where he spent part of each week getting intensive training in speaking and listening with the help of hearing aids.
He remembers those early years as increasingly frustrating because, try as he might, he could not understand what his teachers were saying. By fourth grade he was falling behind academically, and his parents
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