California Education Code

§ 44265.6

EDC § 44265.6 Effective Jan 1, 2018Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 25 · Ch. 2 · Art. 4

Statute text

(a)Upon the request of an employing school district, county office of education, or state special school, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall determine specific requirements for and issue a one-year specialist instruction emergency permit, solely for the purpose of instructing deaf or hard-of-hearing pupils, to a prelingually deaf candidate upon medical or other appropriate professional verifications.

(b)The applicant is exempted from the requirements in Section 44252 and subdivision (b) of Section 44830.

(c)“Prelingually deaf” means, for purposes of this section, having suffered a hearing loss before three years of age that prevents the processing of linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 34. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.