THE CCSEC AUDIOLOGICAL
VISION STATEMENT

The vision of the CCSEC Audilogical team is to serve as positive, collaborative, efficient, resourceful, members of the campus team regarding the evaluation/identification of students meeting the eligibility criteria for the instructional service of Audiological Instruction and utilizing scientific research-based, peer reviewed practices for fostering student success that actively engages students in the therapy process as well as modeling/sharing information with the classroom teachers.       

What is an Audiological Impairment?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), formerly the Education of the Handicapped Act (P.L. 94-142), includes "hearing impairment" and "deafness" as two of the categories under which children with disabilities may be eligible for special education and related services programming. While the term "hearing impairment" is often used generically to describe a wide range of hearing losses, including deafness, the regulations for IDEA define hearing loss and deafness separately.

Hearing impairment is defined by IDEA as "an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."

Deafness is defined as "a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification."

Thus, deafness may be viewed as a condition that prevents an individual from receiving sound in all or most of its forms. In contrast, a child with a hearing loss can generally respond to auditory stimuli, including speech.
 

Members of the Collin County
Special Education Cooperative
Audiological Team include:
 

Name	Telephone	E-mail Address
Helen George	972-548-3229	helen.george@ccsec.org

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