What to Expect from a Center Evaluation
Center educational evaluations focus primarily on areas related to DHH eligibility: academic achievement, adaptive behavior, audiology, communication (across the communication continuum), and social and developmental history.
A Center educational evaluation will focus on language, communication, and learning in school.
Based on record review, the Center may recommend additional areas to assessment. These will be educationally focused and may include cognition, adaptive behavior, and motor skills.
How an Educational Evaluation is unique
Educational evaluations assess multiple domains to assess a child’s strengths, needs, learning abilities and considerations of access to the school environment. Educational evaluations include a variety of perspectives to synthesize the information obtained, ensuring recommendations consider your child as a whole. Educational evaluations gather information required for special education eligibility decisions by the Case Conference Committee (CCC) in compliance with Indiana Article 7.
Center assessment team members can also provide technical assistance to professionals regarding the assessment of children who are deaf and hard of hearing aligning to the Guidelines for the Assessment and Educational Evaluation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Indiana.
Submit a referral to the Center’s multidisciplinary team.
