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Audrey M. Garvin, a counselor at the AmericanSchool for the Deaf (ASD), which is the oldestU.S. school for deaf students, says that schoolsthat cater specifically to deaf students are ableto offer a sense of community and provide betterservices than public schools do on an individualbasis...
Garvin cites a deaf student at ASD (who isconsidering applying to Harvard) who decided totake an AP English course at a local high schoolbecause ASD does not offer AP courses...
Another major academic hurdle that studentsfrom schools for the deaf encounter is difficultywith the English language...
...Librarian Roselle Weiner agreed withHoffmeister. She says that a deaf person whoprimarily uses sign language often misses out onthe intricacies of the English language...
Despite what some see as academic limitationsof schools for the deaf, for the 90 percent ofdeaf children born to hearing parents, attending aschool specifically for deaf students is oftenattractive from a social standpoint...