Assessment
The Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education provides educational evaluations for children who are deaf and hard of hearing across the continuum of communication options for the purposes of eligibility determination, language and goal planning, service provision, monitoring performance and identifying additional learning challenges and developmental needs. The Center works with the local educational agency responsible for planning and implementing the child’s education to ensure evaluations are comprehensive.
An evaluation at the Center may include several disciplines based on file review and requests of referring entity. The Center works with local educational agencies to ensure comprehensive educational evaluations. Areas that may be assessed by the Center include:
- Academic
- Access Technology
- Adaptive
- Audiology
- Cognitive
- Communication and Language
- Executive Function
- Functional (within the educational environment)
- Gross and Fine Motor Abilities
- Observation (natural learning environment)
- Sensory Processing
- Social and Emotional
- Visual-Motor
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 request technical assistance from the Center’s multidisciplinary team.