The procedures and materials used for the assessment and placement of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing must be in the child's preferred mode of communication.
The child meets eligibility criteria for VISUAL IMPAIRMENT and has a suspected hearing loss that cannot be demonstrated conclusively, but there is no speech at an age when speech would normally be expected, as determined by a speech/language therapist, a certified speech and language therapist, or a licensed speech language pathologist; or
Hearing and visual losses that, if considered individually, may not meet the requirements for auditory impairment or visual impairment, but the combination of such losses adversely affects the student's educational performance; or
Medical diagnosis of a progressive medical condition that will result in concomitant auditory and visual losses that, without special education intervention, will adversely affect educational performance; and
The combination of auditory and visual impairments causes such severe communication and other developmental and education needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness; and
For a child from birth through two years of age with Visual and/or Hearing Impairments, an individualized family service plan (IFSP) meeting must be held in place of an ARD committee meeting. The local educational agency (LEA) must comply with the AGES 0-5 framework.