I have a son who is hearing and has Apraxia and we are all learning ASL as a family so he has a way to communicate, we are in the begining stages and we all love it. We have him in Pre-school right now and he is the only kid who knows how to sign, so he is extremely frustrated as he can't talk to people and they don't understand his signs either. A gal I met who is HOH in my class suggested getting him involved in the deaf community at a early age. We are considering putting him in a deaf school versus a mainstream school as we want him to have friends he can talk to and somewhere were he can be understood. Does anyone have any suggestions on good deaf schools in WA?