3.0.0 2087 2023-01-11T13:39:24Z 2023-01-11T13:39:24Z Senate S 2017-11-07 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-11-07T19:41:52Z Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act 115 1120 HR 2017-02-16 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Related bill CRS 2017-11-07 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-11-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. N C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore 2017-11-07 True Education Academic performance and assessments Department of Education Disability and paralysis Disability assistance Education programs funding Educational technology and distance education Elementary and secondary education Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Health information and medical records Hearing, speech, and vision care Language arts Special education Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2017-11-07 Introduced in Senate 2018-04-12T14:46:15Z

Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act

This bill amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to require a state to identify, evaluate, and provide special education and related services to children who have visual or hearing disabilities (or both) and also are, or may be, classified in another disability category. A state must ensure that it has enough qualified personnel to serve children who have such disabilities and that a full continuum of alternative placements is available to meet the needs of disabled children for special education and related services.

The individualized education program for each child that is either (or both) visually or hearing impaired must include specified components and must provide the child with instruction that meets the child's unique learning needs. Similarly, the individualized family service plan for an infant or toddler with a hearing disability must include specified components.

A state's closure of a special school serving deaf or blind children shall count as a reduction of its financial support for special education and related services for purposes of the prohibition against reducing state financial support for such services from one fiscal year to the next.

The bill also: (1) authorizes grants for training special education personnel, to be used in preparing individuals to become qualified teachers and early intervention specialists for children with hearing disabilities; and (2) establishes within the Department of Education the Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence to better support students with visual disabilities.

]]> Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act Display Title Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act Short Titles as Introduced Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to students with visual disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing or deaf-blind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2087is/xml/BILLS-115s2087is.xml 2017-11-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.