The information below has been derived from sections of the law and Office of Special Education Program comments. The guidance provided helPS- clarify the intent of IDEA and may be useful to professio
...nals and parents alike who are trying to advocate appropriate services and supports for children with hearing loss.
Summary of a 2015 court case in which a school was found to have violated IDEA because there was no documentation of daily availability of FM or use by student.
This
bundle of 6 items are designed to assist families, educators, and IEP teams
to better understand the requirements of ADA as applied to access to
education.
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The Auditory Language & Learning Guide is an EXCELLENT informal evaluation tool for listening and language that can be used with students of any age and language ability. The 2 page checklist format e
...asily allows the teacher to develop IEP goals based on identified student weaknesses in the 4 areas of audition/listening, receptive language, expressive language, and social communication. Skills can be rated as 'targeted', 'emerging', 'mastered' or 'previously assessed' and checked off by date achieved. This assessment tool can be used from year to year allowing instructors and parents to see growth in a students language and learning.
This handout lists appropriate behaviors indicating typical development of social-emotional well-being age ranges in months along with recommended actions that a parent or caregiver can take to encour
...age healthy social-emotional development at each age range. From Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning.
Current legal mandates call for all students to reach proficiency as measured through state reading assessments. While reading has long been an area of emphasis in DHH education, meeting this mandate
...is even more challenging when students with hearing loss have additional disabilities. This article summarizes results of an investigation of alternate reading assessments for students who are DHH+ and offers strategies for moving the needle toward improved assessment data.
Communication access is a key component of 504, IDEA and Title II of the ADA. Under Title II of the ADA, schools are required to ensure that communication access is as effective for children with hear
...ing loss as it is for their typically hearing peers through the provision of appropriate auxiliary aids and services. This handout provides a forum for team discussion of the need for auxiliary aids and services for different school situations so students can receive information from, and convey information to, others as effectively as students without disabilities.
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