(a) An assignment for Teacher of Students with Auditory Impairments is allowed with one of the following certificates.
- (1) Deaf and Severely Hard of Hearing.
- (2) Hearing Impaired.
- (3) Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Early Childhood-Grade 12.
- (b) A teacher in an assignment for Teacher of Students with Auditory Impairments must be available to students with auditory impairments.
- (c) A teacher in an assignment for Teacher of Students with Auditory Impairments is not required to pass the Texas Assessment of Sign Communication (TASC) or the Texas Assessment of Sign Communication-American Sign Language (TASC-ASL) in order to be assigned to a classroom in which another communication method is used predominately. If this teacher completes certification requirements through a State Board for Educator Certification-approved educator preparation program in Texas, the program must have assessed proficiency in the communication method and verified it to be at an appropriate level.
Source Note:The provisions of this §231.709 adopted to be effective December 27, 2020, 45 TexReg 9183.