Policy – Category 5000 (Students)
AR 5005.7 - Audiology
Related services also include school health services and school nurse services, social work services in schools, and parent counseling and training.
The same regulations define some of these services as follows:
Audiology includes:
a. Identification of children with hearing loss;
b. Determination of the range, nature, and degree of hearing loss, including referral for medical or other professional attention for the habilitation of hearing;
c. Provision of habilitative activities, such as language habilitation, auditory training, speech reading (lip-reading), hearing evaluation, and speech conservation;
d. Creation and administration of programs for prevention of hearing loss;
e. Counseling and guidance of children, parents, and teachers regarding hearing loss; and,
f. Determination of children’s needs for group and individual amplification, selecting and fitting an appropriate aid, and evaluating the effectiveness of amplification.
Services include:
• Hearing screening program for pre-school and school-aged children
• Hearing evaluations (including tympanometry)
Otoacoustic Emissions assessments
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• Hearing aid evaluations (no dispensing)
Auditory processing evaluations
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AR 5005.7 – Audiology
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Desert Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area (DMSELPA) (rev. 00/00)
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