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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1511 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6413 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1511 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on EDUCATION | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. ABERCROMBIE, 83rd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT FOR DEAF AND | |
| 19 | 19 | HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That the general statutes be amended to (1) ensure that the 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | Department of Public Health, Office of Early Childhood and 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | Department of Education collect and share data to ensure that deaf, 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | hard of hearing and deaf-blind students have the necessary language 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | skills to acquire knowledge that will allow them to be successful in 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | school and after graduation, (2) establish a working group on language 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | assessment within the Department of Education to advise agencies on 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | appropriate language assessments, practices and programs, and (3) 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | ensure that interventions happen immediately if a student does not 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | demonstrate progress in age-appropriate expressive and receptive 10 | |
| 33 | 33 | language skills. 11 | |
| 34 | 34 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 35 | 35 | To identify, assess and monitor the progress of deaf, hard of hearing | |
| 36 | 36 | and deaf-blind children from the time of identification of hearing | |
| 37 | 37 | levels through high school. |