We had language which stated the case conference must consider the provision of braille - but now have that braille must be provided unless the case conference committee determines otherwise. Bob indicated that this is an issue that the Division needs to revisit. Maureen indicated that her program does not look at this as a type of methodology - she instructs her service providers that this is a family decision. She is concerned at how many occurrences of these terms there are within the document. David brought up a concern regarding the caseload.
Speech pathologists are very concerned regarding the size of their caseloads.
Maureen indicated that service coordinators are the only individuals who have size limits. Each individual provider sets his or her own caseload - if they don't want to accept any more students, then they don't. Maureen brought up the issue of assistive technology and specifically the issue of hearing aids. A similar argument is made regarding eye glasses. The federal language speaks to it being a case conference committee decision - which is how we wrote Article 7.