2205
RIGHTS OF STUDENTS WHO ARE
DEAF, HARD-OF-HEARING, OR DEAF-BLIND
POLICY
The Board of Education is committed to providing quality educational opportunities for all students with disabilities, including those who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind. This commitment includes ensuring instructional programming that safeguards the following rights for students who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind:
1. The right to qualified teachers, interpreters, support services staff, and resource personnel who can communicate effectively with the child using the child’s own mode of communication, be it (a) a signed system based on English Code; (b) American Sign Language; (c) an oral system; or (d) a simultaneous communication system as determined with appropriate diagnostic information, consideration of the student’s learning style, and collaboration with the student’s educational planning team, including parents and guardians;
9. The right to placement that is best suited to the child’s individual needs including but not limited to social, emotional, cultural needs, age, hearing loss, visual acuity, academic level, mode of communication, style of learning, and motivational and family support;
10. The right to equal access to all academic programs in their educational settings and supplemented with necessary and appropriate support services; and
Approved: 1/22/98