DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PROGRAM PROGRAM PURPOSE: To assess and provide services for students with hearing loss according to IDEA. PROGRAM GOALS: Ensure that every student in the BOCES is hearing and learning to the best of his/her ability.  This includes: screening, diagnostic evaluation/identification, development and implementation of an educational plan, monitoring, collaboration with other parents and professionals, and education regarding hearing conservation PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS: Student must be identified with a hearing loss that may or may not be educationally significant or the student must have an at-risk condition for a future auditory disorder. DISTRICTS INVOLVED: Any of the 10 districts in the Mountain BOCES who has a student who meets these requirements. FUNDING RESOURCES: IDEA dollars STAFF INVOLVED: Hearing consultants, Audiologist, Educational Interpreters, and Teaching Assistants