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Education for hearing impaired children from birth to 21 years of age.
On March 31, 1832 an act was approved which provided for the funding of a state institution "...for the instruction and maintenance of Deaf mutes to be known as the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb." It also provided for the establishment of a board of eleven trustees that would have control and management of the institution. The institute was to be housed in a facility that was originally constructed for orphans of Civil War soldiers, the New Jersey Soldiers' Children Home, on Hamilton and Chestnut Avenues in Trenton. On March 22, 1965, the school's name was changed to the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf. Mrs. Katzenbach was chosen for this honor because of her many years of hard work for the school and its students while serving on the State Board of Education. She served on the Board for 43 years during which time she was a friend and advocate of the Deaf in New Jersey