It provides full-day instructional services to infants, children, and youth who are deaf, including persons with multiple disabilities.

[4] As of 1980, in order for a student to attend, their home school district had to refer them to AASD.

The Atlanta Constitution stated "Hearing impaired preschoolers are particularly likely to attend the Area School, rather than a local one.

[1] An article from The Atlanta Constitution stated that parents felt protective of the school it provides "a world that is comprehensible though removed from the "normal" setting.

[5] As of 1979, for students under age three, AASD had a program where parents have the education done in their residences.