noun
school for the deaf
Refers to a specialized school for deaf or hard-of-hearing students. In Japan, these are often called 聾学校 (ろうがっこう) in official contexts, but ろう学校 is the common written form.
彼女はろう学校で手話を教えている。
She teaches sign language at a school for the deaf.
Kanji form using 聾 (deafness). Rare in modern usage; ろう学校 is preferred.
Compound of ろう (deaf) and 学校 (school). The reading ろう is from Middle Chinese 聾.