‘Sky’s the limit’: Paula Mason wants to raise the bar for deaf and blind education in Idaho

By: Abigail Gerstein

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 914

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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For Paula Mason, the new executive director of the Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind, deaf education is personal.

At 4 years old, Mason’s father sustained a head injury that left him with profound hearing loss. The accident, however, did not stop Mason’s father from hitchhiking from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Eventually opening a business, he raised his family in Gooding, Idaho — a city that the Idaho School for the Deaf …

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