California Education Code

§ 56326.5

EDC § 56326.5 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 30 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The department’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing unit and the California School for the Deaf shall jointly select language developmental milestones from existing standardized norms, pursuant to the process specified in subdivision (d), for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy. This parent resource shall:

(1)Include the language developmental milestones selected pursuant to the process specified in subdivision (d).

(2)Be appropriate for use, in both content and administration, with deaf and hard-of-hearing children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, who use both or one of the languages of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. For purposes of this section, “English” includes spoken English, written English, or English with the use of visual supplements.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 652, Sec. 1. (SB 210) Effective January 1, 2016.