Man Corey, how old are you and where do you live? I haven’t heard anyone use “Deaf and Dumb” in…well forever. Even when I lived in rural Kentucky they didn’t refer to children with hearing impairment as “Deaf and Dumb”.
I think the most important thing here is to have as accurate diagnosis of the hearing loss as soon as possible given the age of the patient and to have an audiologist who will work with the school system if they are unfamiliar about how to deal with hearing impaired children since they do present with a different set of learning “rules” so-to-speak than other children that might be in a special education program. Most HI kids I know of are in the regular classroom and have assistive tech or other services to ensure they are getting the information necessary from the teacher. At most, they may have one-on-one therapy with a speech pathologist or some other therapy session. There really is an effort to have the children with special needs (whatever they may be) located in the same class-room and not isolated off in some remote corner of the school. The thing is that your child needs the parent(s) to be an advocate as well as the audiologist to ensure that the child is in the most enriching educational setting as possible.
Education of children with special needs has really come a LONG way in the past 10-15 years.