§ 300.113 Routine checking of hearing aids and external components of surgically implanted medical devices.

Plain English summary

This section requires public agencies to ensure that hearing aids worn by children with hearing impairments and the external components of surgically implanted medical devices are functioning properly in school. However, public agencies are explicitly not responsible for post-surgical maintenance, programming, or replacement of surgically implanted medical devices or their external components. The obligation is limited to routine checking of proper function, not medical-level device management.

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 medical device).

Affected parties

• public agencies
• children with hearing impairments including deafness
• children with surgically implanted medical devices receiving special education and related services

Official source

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-34/part-300/section-300.113