ASL to English

I found this site enlightening. What would it be like to teach a deaf child to read and write? Certainly most deaf are very capable of learning to read and write in English just as most of the hearing are.
As we are learning ASL so many issues have come to light for me. What concepts are more difficult to learn if you can't hear? What issues effect the deaf that are not a big deal for those of us who can hear? How do the deaf feel about trying to communicate with hearing people who often don't even try to understand? It is so important that we try to understand deaf culture as well as the language.