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Answer:
Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), which oversees all special-ed programs and schools for the deaf. Dr. Robert R. Davila, who acquire his first schooling at California School for the Deaf, held this post from 1989 to 1993. After serving his term, he became headmaster of Fanwood, then was appointed to the post of RIT Vice President for NTID—the director of NTID—serving from 1996 to 2004. In December 2006, he was appointed Interim President at Gallaudet University, and took office at the beginning of 2007.
Other Deaf persons have had high posts in OSERS and OSEP: Boyce Williams, Chief of the Deafness and Communicative Disorders Branch of the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Edna Paananen Adler, a consultant who also worked in Williams’ division; Malcolm “Mac” Norwood, and Mac’s successor, Ernie Hairston, Chief of the Captioning and Adaptation Branch of the Office of Special Education Programs in the Department of Education.
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