HB4414 S ED AMT #1 2-28

Hager  7871

The Committee on Education moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 4414—A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-1-20, relating to authorizing certain modes of communication as a means for acquiring language for children from birth to five years of age; making implementation subject to appropriation by the Legislature; requiring reporting of measures specific to language and literacy for children age three to five to advisory committee; requiring the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Department of Education to jointly select language developmental milestones from existing standardized norms, to develop a family resource for use by families and service providers to understand and monitor deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s receptive and expressive language acquisition and progress toward English literacy development; requiring the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Department of Education to prepare a list of valid and reliable existing tools for assessments for service providers that can be used periodically to determine the receptive and expressive language and literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children; requiring dissemination of the family resource and the educator tools and assessments, as well as the provision of informational materials on the use of the resources, tools, and assessments; imposing certain requirements on the child’s individualized family service plan team and individual education program team if a deaf or hard-of-hearing child does not demonstrate progress in receptive and expressive language skills; requiring the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to solicit input from certain stakeholders on the selection of language developmental milestones for children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing that are equivalent to those for children who are not deaf or hard-of-hearing for inclusion in the family resource; setting forth membership of advisory committee; requiring the West Virginia Department of Education to annually produce an aggregated report that is specific to language and literacy development of children whose primary exceptionality is deaf and hard-of-hearing from birth to five years of age; and requiring that all of certain activities be consistent with federal law regarding the education of children with disabilities and federal law regarding the privacy of student information.

Adopted

Rejected