(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.
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