Happy Founder's Day

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Happy Founder's Day

While the New Mexico Legislature officially established the New Mexico School for the Deaf (NMSD) in 1887, it was deaf-education pioneer Lars Larson who first planted the school's historic roots in 1885. Using their own funds, Lars and his wife Belle began teaching deaf students in a small adobe house in Santa Fe. The deaf couple dreamed of establishing a permanent place where deaf and hard of hearing children could receive a quality education. In the years since, NMSD has been making a difference in the lives of deaf children and their families. NMSD also has the distinction of being the only land grant school for the deaf in the country.

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