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Deaf Schools
Parents of deaf children also have to opportunity to send their children to deaf schools, where the curriculum is taught in American Sign Language. The first school for the education of deaf individuals was the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, which opened on April 15, 1817. This was a coeducation insitiution. This school was later renamed the American School for the Deaf, and was granted federal money to set up of deaf institutions around the country. Many teachers in these schools were women, because according to PBS and the research done for the film Through Deaf Eyes, they were better at instructing due to the patience it took to do something repetitively. The American School for the Deaf was set up based on a British model of education for deaf individuals with instruction in the subjects of reading, writing, history, math, and an advanced study of the Bible.

Gallaudet University is the only deaf university in the world, which instructs in American Sign Language, and promotes research and publications for the deaf community. Gallaudet University is responsible for expanding services and education for deaf individuals in developing countries around the world, as well as in the United States. Many deaf individuals choose to be educated in a deaf environment for their college level education.

Public Accommodations
Deaf individuals are given certain accommodations that help them in their daily lives. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, along with the amendments that followed the law, allowed deaf individuals certain rights that, previous to 1990, were not granted to deaf individuals. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed on July 26,1990 by President George H.W. Bush. The main benefit of the ADA was the right for deaf people to have access to interpreters, which in turn, allowed more equal access to education. The ADA helped to ease the communication barrier between hearing individuals and the members of the deaf and hard of hearing communities, provide equal employment opportunities, and telecommunication devices. The ADA also allows for equal opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing individuals by making it illegal to discriminate against these individuals on account of their disability.