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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6413
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1511
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. ABERCROMBIE, 83rd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT FOR DEAF AND
HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to (1) ensure that the 1
Department of Public Health, Office of Early Childhood and 2
Department of Education collect and share data to ensure that deaf, 3
hard of hearing and deaf-blind students have the necessary language 4
skills to acquire knowledge that will allow them to be successful in 5
school and after graduation, (2) establish a working group on language 6
assessment within the Department of Education to advise agencies on 7
appropriate language assessments, practices and programs, and (3) 8
ensure that interventions happen immediately if a student does not 9
demonstrate progress in age-appropriate expressive and receptive 10
language skills. 11
Statement of Purpose:
To identify, assess and monitor the progress of deaf, hard of hearing
and deaf-blind children from the time of identification of hearing
levels through high school.