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I'm not deaf, but my daughter Lillian is. She is adopted from Liberia where there are a lot of deaf orphans waiting. I think this is pretty much the case worldwide like Crick said. There is an agency that has a lot of waiting children and they also have a subsidy to help with the cost of adopting children with specific "special needs" and deafness is one of them (I say "special needs" because I don't really view deafness as a special need, but it is classified that way in the adoption world). If you PM me I can give you the agency info. I don't have any personal experience with them. I've just heard about them from other families.
I have specifically heard about a larger number of deaf orphans in Ethiopia, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. I know that there are deaf children in the foster care system as well, but they are often hard to locate. Like Crick said above you may have to contact individual agencies or social workers and tell them that you are looking for a deaf child.
Hope that helps.
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Rachel
Mama to:
Lillian  , age 7, adopted from Liberia
Micah  , age 5, adopted from Liberia
Jayden  , age 2, adopted from Guatemala
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