Section 33.12. Hearing evaluation  


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  • The  office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall
      provide suitable hearing evaluations periodically for the  residents  in
      state  schools. Upon the ascertainment that any resident so evaluated is
      deaf or hard of hearing, it shall be the duty of the office  to  provide
      suitable  remedial  efforts,  to include, but not be limited to, hearing
      aids, alternative  forms  of  communication  and  auditory  training  to
      overcome  this  handicap and to ascertain the true level of intelligence
      of such residents.