Central North Carolina School for the Deaf
It served nineteen counties in the state, with the area including Durham and Winston-Salem.[3] The number of deaf children had exploded in the state due to an epidemic of rubella in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[6] In 1995 North Carolina officials were considering closing the school due to its small size, something opposed by members of the community.[4] Susan Sein was acting director until 2000, when she moved to a job at the Texas School for the Deaf.[7] In 2000 auditors for the state recommended it close one of the three schools for the deaf as the population declined further.