Teaching hearing-impaired children is a current problem not only for pedagogy but also for audiology, otorhinolaryngology, rehabilitation medicine. The data on the prevalence of hearing loss among children, the importance of its timely detection and early correction, information from the history of school education of hearing-impaired and deaf children in the world and in Russia are presented in the article. The article also tells about the history of the emergence and further development of boarding school No. 33 that implements programs for the education and upbringing of hearing-impaired, late-deaf, and cochlear implanted children. Using the example of boarding school No. 33 in Saint Petersburg, with which the Laboratory of Hearing and Speech of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University has been cooperating for 50 years, the features of school education of children with hearing loss are outlined, the achievements of correctional pedagogy and further opportunities for improving special schools working on adapted educational programs for children with hearing impairments are discussed.

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