Deaf education
Vachagan Khalatyan was born in Urut. Receiving a village school education and later on, a high school education in Stepanavan, he moved to Yerevan. In 1949-54 Vachagan successfully graduated from the Yerevan State Linguistic University named after Valery Brusov (YSLU), department of French Language and Literature. In 1954 Khalatyan was drafted into the Soviet Army. In 1958 Vachagan started working at boarding school for deaf and dumb children in Yerevan as a teacher of Armenian language and as a paraprofessional educator providing more intensive instructional sessions in a resource room. In 1959-61 Vachagan graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University (1959–61)/distance learning/, the faculty of Deaf education and became the first deaf educator in Armenia.