President's Blog

What I've Learned in 26 years about Educating the Deaf

I am always searching for different perspectives on the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing. I have been fortunate, over the past twenty-six years at WRSD, to have the opportunity to visit many …

President’s Blog – July 2011

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the new Willie Ross School for the Deaf website and to the President’s blog. I hope to use this forum to inform visitors to our website about the…

The Benefits of a Diversity of Teaching Methods

The question, “Do states need schools for the deaf?” has recently been posed in the New York Times.  The Times hosted a discussion in their chatroom which drew numerous postings about…

It was Nice to be a Student Again

On November 15, the Outreach Division of the Willie Ross School for the Deaf sponsored a seminar, “Educating Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Children:  From Research to Practice.” The atte…

A Meeting of Schools for the Deaf

I recently returned from a meeting of the Coalition of Private Schools Serving Deaf Children, an organization of schools from the Northeast and Midwest that meets twice a year.Much time was spent disc…