Every year our school welcomes about 150 deaf children of every religion, representing, in everyday experience, an educational core for coexistence and mutual tolerance. Students come from different parts of Palestine: Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and surrounding areas, Ramallah, Hebron and nearby villages (10 km from Bethlehem), and Jericho (45 km from Bethlehem). Children from the region of Jerusalem and the North are excluded because of transport problems and transition due to the security fence separating Israel from Palestine, surrounding and closing almost entirely the city of Bethlehem.

Students return home every day, except for about twenty girls, whose home is too far, and therefore they live in the Institute.

Most of the students has BTE hearing aids that amplify the sound signals and that, with a specific rehabilitation, help them to perceive sounds and noises, to discriminate words and simple sentences in relation to the degree of hearing loss.

A small number of children benefits instead of a cochlear implant. This neuroprosthesis is indicated for children with profound deafness; the facility replaces the cochlea, the organ of hearing, by converting sounds from the environment into electrical signals, sending them directly to the auditory nerve. For children who use this aid, a specific re-education program is provided.