In the territory of nowadays Latvia schools for the education of the deaf are known for 200 years already. But compared to the schools for non-handicapped children they are of course much younger. But if we compare how schools for the deaf worked in those days there is still quite much, we could learn for the teaching process nowadays. Historically Swiss and German pedagogues played an important role, as they prepared the first teachers for their task to work with the deaf and developed the methods for the teaching process for these very special pupils. At the begin of the 19th century the first schools for the deaf had been founded in Riga privately and in the second half of the 19th century such schools were founded in Jelgava and Valmiera. Before the Second World War four publicly financed schools for the deaf were functional. In 1958 the school in Valmiera was reorganized for pupils with hearing difficulties. In 1960 the school for the district of Jelagava in Lielvircava was closed and so up to 1990 two schools for the deaf existed – in Riga and in Rezekne. Today only one school for the deaf exists in Riga while at other schools in the country special classes for the deaf are functional as part of the local school-system. The traditions of the pedagogical work with the deaf are continued in nowadays Latvia, their work is founded on the latest achievements of Pedagogy, Psychology and other sciences related to the pedagogical process.