Nevada is about to get its first campus dedicated to teaching students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. The Las Vegas Charter School of the Deaf has been six years in the making. It opens this fall with about 25 students. There are more than 400 students in the Clark County School District who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. They are mainstreamed with the help of interpreters and will slowly be moved into the new facility. It will focus on the bilingual-bicultural model, where teachers are ASL fluent but students learn to read and write in English. A search for teachers is underway who are fluent in English and sign language.
