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House Bill 590 |
House Author: Naishtat |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
For purposes of adequately providing for comprehensive diagnosis and evaluation of each school-age child with a serious visual impairment, as required by the statewide plan for the education of children with visual impairments, and for purposes of determining a child's eligibility for a school district's special education program on the basis of the impairment, House Bill 590 amends the Education Code to require a student's full individual and initial evaluation to include an orientation and mobility evaluation conducted in a variety of conditions and settings by a certified orientation and mobility specialist and to provide for a certified specialist's participation as part of a multidisciplinary team in evaluating data on which the determination of eligibility is based.