About PSD

• Founded in 1820, PSD is the 3rd oldest school for the Deaf in the United States.
• PSD currently educates about 205 deaf and hard of hearing students, ages 3 -21, in preschool through high school classes. 
• PSD offers an Early Intervention program for newly diagnosed deaf infants and toddlers with services provided at PSD and off-site. 
• PSD educates an ethnically and geographically diverse student body. While the majority of students live in the city of Philadelphia, we also have students from Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Berks counties as well as southern New Jersey. 
• At PSD students learn in the language most appropriate for them-- American Sign Language as well as written and spoken English.

High school juniors visit the Harrisburg State Capitol with Senator Christine Tartaglione.