In April 2006 Dr. Janakova, co-leader of the global PEN-International Project, focused on gradual improvement in the tertiary level education of the Deaf, visited the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, US. The aim of this one-week study stay was a series of 15 class observations in teaching English to American deaf and hard-of-hearing university students, focused on improving skills in reading and writing academic texts.

The courses covered teaching beginners up to very advanced English courses for the Deaf. All American colleagues are hearing, throughout their instruction they used their voices and American Sign Language at the same time. After returning from the US, a special captioned nine-part video program was made by the Czech LRC team out of the video recordings taken during the observings at NTID. This program will be shortly distributed to all Czech special schools to help teachers of English to the Deaf.