If you'd like to enlarge any picture you see during this tour, just click on it. We live here from late August until May, so Talladega is our home most of the time. The campus is just a few blocks from downtown Talladega. The city has been home to Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind since 1858. It's a nice small town, kind of like the small towns we're from.
Students start here as young as three years old.
We have a new Center of Excellence that's designed to help them start learning language at an earlier age. For children born deaf, it's impossible to just pick up language the way hearing children do. Unless, of course, their parents speak American Sign Language. Here at the Center for Excellence, the teachers are trained to help very young children pick up English skills, and teach them using sign language. English becomes a second language for most people who are deaf, and ASL is their first language.