Instructional Staff

Deaf / Hard of Hearing Services

State Leadership:  Birth - 5

Statewide leadership in addressing identified areas of need in special education services is provided through eleven functions and five projects directed by various ESCs. The primary responsibility of each ESC is to provide leadership, training, technical assistance, and the disseminate information throughout the state. The ESCs coordinating these statewide leadership functions and projects are responsible for the implementation of many of the state's continuous improvement activities.

Though both functions and projects provide statewide leadership, ESC function leads establish and coordinate a 20-region network. This ensures ongoing communication among ESCs about state-level needs assessment processes and planning, as well as implementing and evaluating statewide activities. Project leadership focuses on a specific activity.

Early Intervention (0 - 3)

Through the ESC State Leadership Project, ESC-10 provides leadership, staff development, consultation and technical assistance via the statewide ESC Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ESC DHH) network as they assist regional day school programs for the deaf and local school districts with the development and implementation of comprehensive early intervention services to families of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. ESC-10 facilitates an organized effort of parents, community, and agency stakeholders to collaboratively address improving outcomes for infants, toddlers and families as outlined in the Comprehensive Statewide Plan for Educational Services for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, initiated in the 2005-06 fiscal year. Additionally, through interagency collaboration with the Texas Education Agency, the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services – Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Office and the Department of State Health Services’ Texas Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, ESC-10 works to promote practices and protocols that support a comprehensive statewide seamless system of coordinated services between newborn hearing screening programs, audiology and otolaryngology services, medical home services, local ECI programs, regional day school programs for the deaf (RDSPDs) and local school districts so that no child/family is lost to follow-up.

Early Childhood Education (3 – 5)

Through the ESC State Leadership Project, ESC-10 provides leadership, staff development, consultation and technical assistance via the statewide ESC Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ESC DHH) network as they assist regional day school programs for the deaf and local school districts with the development and implementation of comprehensive instructional programs for preschool age students with hearing loss. Through collaboration with the ESC Preschool contacts, the ESC DHH contacts help local programs meet the unique needs of preschool age students who are deaf or hard of hearing across the continuum of placement options.

This website is intended to provide professionals, families and the greater community with information and resources related to educational services and topics of interest for children with hearing loss, ages birth – 5.

See also:  Region 10 Deaf and Hard of Hearing program

Statewide Leadership Contacts

DHH ESC Network Leads

Statewide Technical Assistance Resources

Auditory Impairment (AI) Eligibility Guidance: Birth – 3

February 9, 2008 – TETN

 

AI Eligibility Guidance Document

Statewide Staff Development Opportunities

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