Marcia Goldberg is one of the founders of Shema v’Ezer, a Sunday school in Washington, D.C. for children with special needs including Deaf children. “We thought that a special Sunday school would be a nice experience, and it would give us two free, quiet hours on Sunday mornings,” one mother says. In the ‘Los Angeles Jewish Times’ article on Shema v’Ezer, Goldberg is quoted as explaining that Deaf children might not be able to learn the tune for chanting their haftorahs (reading of the Torah), but they can learn to use the trope (cantillation marks) to help them say the verses with the right phrasing. Compared to English, Hebrew is easy for deaf people to read aloud, because the letters and vowels are pronounced the same way in every word. Only the “ch” sound is hard to teach.