Western Pennsylvania School For The Deaf (WPSD)

Education of over 359 children from birth to 21 years. Courses and offerings meet or exceed requirements set forth by the us and pa departments of education. We have 4 sites: pittsburgh, scranton, hershey and edinboro. the pittsburgh campus provides educational and extracurricular programs from preschool through 12th grade, with a post-graduate component, to approximately 186 Deaf and hard-of-hearing children from more than 100 School districts and 50 counties across Pennsylvania. the scranton School for the Deaf and hard of hearing children is a satellite campus of the School that serves students from northeast and central Pennsylvania that provides education and extracurricular programs to approximately 79 students. We are dually accredited by mid-state association (msa) and conference of education administrators of schools and programs for the Deaf (ceasd).

the choices for children program has provided early intervention services to Deaf and hard of hearing infants, toddlers and families in the Western Pennsylvania and scranton areas for many years. the School provides home-based early intervention services throughout Pennsylvania to as many as 100 families. Experienced certified teachers have been the cornerstone of this primary home-based program, where visits to the home or daycare are conducted on a regular basis.