The Nation - News from Dec. 30, 1988

A deaf man has been named director of the Central Institute for the Deaf at the Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis. Richard Stoker will be the first deaf director of the institution, which was founded in 1914 to teach deaf children to talk; to prepare teachers, clinicians and research scientists who deal with the deaf; and to pursue research beneficial to those with hearing disorders. Stoker, an associate professor of audiology at McGill University in Montreal, is also director of the oral rehabilitation and education division at McGill’s School of Human Communication Disorders. In addition to directing the institute, Stoker will head the Washington University Department of Speech and Hearing.