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The Board recognizes that District parents with hearing impairments which prevent a meaningful participation in their child’s educational program must be afforded an opportunity equal to that afforded other parents to participate in meetings or activities pertaining to the academic and/or disciplinary aspects of their child’s education. Accordingly, the District will provide an interpreter for hearing-impaired parents for school-initiated academic and/or disciplinary meetings or activities including, but not limited to:

• Parent/teacher conferences

• CSE/CPSE meetings

• Child/study or building level team meetings

• Planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress

• Career planning

• Suspension hearings or other conferences with school officials relating to disciplinary actions

The District, upon written request to the Building Principal, will provide an interpreter for the hearing-impaired parent. The request must be submitted at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled meeting or activity and must include the type of interpreter requested. If an interpreter is unavailable, the District will then make other reasonable accommodations which are satisfactory to the parent (e.g., notetaker, transcript, decoder, or telecommunication device for the deaf). These services will be made available by the District at no cost to the parent.

Cross Ref: 1920 Accommodations for Parents with Disabilities

Ref:   Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§12131-12134

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §794

Education Law §3230

8 NYCRR §100.2(aa)

Rothschild v. Grottenthaler, 907 F.2d 286 (2d Cir. 1990)

Adoption date:   December 1, 1995

Amended date:  June 12, 2006

Reviewed date:  November 23, 2015

Amended date:  February 13, 2017

Amended date:  February 5, 2018