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Joint Efforts Supporting Improving Access to Federally Protected Rights2/13/2024 Along with American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and other hearing health organizations, ACI Alliance has worked to ensure that family access to federally protected rights is upheld within state programs. While LEAD-K supports establishing advisory committees to gather existing resources and advise the state on educating children who are D/HH, we instead support requiring the state lead agency (or agencies) to develop a parent resource that is widely distributed. This helps to empower parents to have a meaningful and impactful impact on their child’s individualized family service plan (IFSP) and individualized education program (IEP) as emphasized in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Sample opinion editorial: Sample LEAD-K Op-Ed (asha.org) POSITION PAPER: SUPPORTING PARENT CHOICE FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING12/10/2018 The Position Paper: Supporting Parent Choice for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing was recently approved by the ACI Alliance Board of Directors. It is an important tool in our advocacy to promote parent choice within the larger context of language development and literacy for children with hearing loss. With this paper, we have been inclusive of the importance of all hearing technologies (not just cochlear implants) as well as the language of the home. ACI Alliance responded to a letter from LEAD-K on 2/27/2019 emphasizing the importance of language development in the CI process, our perspective about Parent Choice, and our disagreement with their proposal to pass unnecessary and redundant legislation rather than addressing existing deficiencies in our state programs for children. LEAD-K Letter of 2/21/2019 to ACI Alliance ACI Alliance submits comments on Early Intervention program1/11/2019 ACI Alliance submitted comments on the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program emphasizing the need for professionals to provide complete and accurate information on options and to support Parent Choice. Parent Choice in Early Intervention11/6/2018 The ACI Alliance works collaboratively with other organizations in the field of hearing loss to ensure families are supported in their choices for their children with hearing loss. There is an effort by a group called LEAD-K to encourage passage of state bills that the ACI Alliance and our collaborative partners feel would negatively impact parent choice. Although we agree that although the system is not perfect, we want to improve the way IDEA is carried out rather than pass state laws that will operate alongside of IDEA. ACI Alliance State Champions and other state advocates are monitoring LEAD-K activities at the state level.
Our specific concerns with the LEAD-K process are: |
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