Word: deafness
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According to Stewart, the lack of deaf students at Harvard stems from difficulties educating deaf children, in addition to the university's already strict admissions requirements...
...Harvard is a difficult place to get into even when you can hear," Stewart said. "Given the hurdles that deaf children have to jump through to become educated in this country, it's even harder for them to qualify...
Robert J. Hoffmeister, director of programs in deaf studies at Boston University, says that the lack of deaf students at top-flight schools can be explained in part by an "attitude of low expectations" for deaf students in pre-college education...
Hoffmeister says the schooling for deaf youth is far below average...
...education of deaf students is abysmal," he says...