NC 1501-2.11 Routine Checking of Hearing Aids and External Components of Surgically

Plain English summary

Public agencies must ensure that hearing aids worn in school by children with hearing impairments are functioning properly. Agencies are also responsible for ensuring external components of surgically implanted medical devices function properly, but are not responsible for post-surgical maintenance, programming, or replacement of surgically implanted devices or their external components for children receiving special education under IDEA.

Key requirements

• Each public agency must ensure that hearing aids worn in school by children with hearing impairments, including deafness, are functioning properly.
• Each public agency must ensure that the external components of surgically implanted medical devices are functioning properly.
• A public agency is not responsible for the post-surgical maintenance, programming, or replacement of the medical device that has been surgically implanted (or of an external component of the surgically implanted device) for a child receiving special education and related services under the IDEA.

Affected parties

• public agencies
• children with hearing impairments
• children who are deaf
• children with surgically implanted medical devices
• children receiving special education and related services under IDEA

Official source

https://www.dpi.nc.gov/documents/publications/catalog/ec144-policies-governing-services/open#page=27