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Legal Requirements and Reports

Communication Plan

In developing an IEP for a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, IDEA 2004 300.324 (a)(iv) says that “the IEP Team must consider the communication needs of the child, and in the case of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, consider the child’s language and communication needs, opportunities for direct communication with peers and  professional personnel in the child’s language and communication mode, academic level, and full range of needs, including opportunities for direct instruction in the child’s language and communication mode;”

A model Communication Plan for IEP teams.

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Directions for the model Communication Plan. 

icon Directions for the Communication Plan ( 2006-10-25 15:12:54)

Sign Language Interpreters are required to hold an Iowa license.
Legal requirements are found at http://www.idph.state.ia.us/licensure/laws.asp?board=ihi.

Supporting Links

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Lending Library:
http://www.iowaschoolforthedeaf.org/html/resource_library.html

http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/ds/Webpages/NEW.Library.htm

Deaf Services Commission of Iowa
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/ds/

Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
http://www.dcmp.org/

Directory--Iowa's Educational Audiology and Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services
http://www.iowaschoolforthedeaf.org/html/services_in_iowa.html

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/iaehdi/

Educational Interpreting
http://www.classroominterpreting.org/home.asp

Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) testing
http://www.ed.arizona.edu/ask12/

Hands and Voices
http://www.handsandvoices.org

Interpreter Licensure in Iowa
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/licensure/board_home.asp?board=ihi

http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/ds/Webpages/NEW.Interpreting.htm

Iowa Association of the Deaf (IAD)
http://www.iowadeaf.org
 
Iowa Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf (ISRID)
http://www.iowastaterid.org/

Iowa School for the Deaf
http://www.iowaschoolforthedeaf.org/

Iowa's Children's Hearing Loss Center
http://www.iadeafblind.k12.ia.us/

Iowa's Deafblind Services Project
http://www.iadeafblind.k12.ia.us/

The Postsecondary Education Programs Network (PEPNet)
http://www.pepnet.org/

 
Contact

Marsha Gunderson, Consultant
Educational Audiology and Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Education
Iowa Department of Education
3501 Harry Langdon Blvd
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
712-366-3284 V/TTY
712-366-3230 fax
mgunderson@iowaschoolforthedeaf.org

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 October 2007 )