The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part to support the following activities:
(a) Technical assistance to agencies, institutions, or organizations providing educational or early intervention services to children with deaf-blindness;
(b) Preservice or inservice training to paraprofessionals, professionals, or related services personnel preparing to serve, or serving, children with deaf-blindness;
(c) Replication of successful innovative approaches to providing educational, early intervention, or related services to children with deaf-blindness;
(d) Pilot projects that are designed to—
(1) Expand local educational agency capabilities by providing services to children with deaf-blindness that supplement services already provided to children and youth through State and local resources; and
(2) Encourage eventual assumption of funding responsibility by State and local authorities;
(e) Development, improvement, or demonstration of new or existing methods, approaches, or techniques that contribute to the adjustment, early intervention, and education of children with deaf-blindness;
(f) Facilitation of parent involvement in the education of their children with deaf-blindness;
(g) Research to identify and meet the full range of special needs of those children;
(h) Technical assistance for transitional services, as described in § 307.13; and
(i) A national clearinghouse for children with deaf-blindness as described in § 307.15.
(a) The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part to State and multi-State projects to support the following activities—
(1) Special education, early intervention, and related services, as well as vocational and transitional services, to children with deaf-blindness to whom States are not obligated to make available a free appropriate public education under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and to whom the State is not providing those services under some other authority. These services may include the following:
(i) The diagnosis and educational evaluation of children who are likely to be diagnosed as having deaf-blindness;
(ii) Programs of adjustment, education, and orientation for children with deaf-blindness; and
(iii) Consultative, counseling, and training services for the families of children with deaf-blindness.
(iv) Preparation of a coordinated plan for each child with deaf-blindness served, describing all the services provided under paragraphs (a)(1) (i) through (iii) of this section. These services must be in accordance with other Federal and State programs.
(2) Technical assistance to public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations providing early intervention, educational, transitional, vocational, early identification, and related
(i) Provide special education and related services, as well as vocational and transitional services, to those children with deaf-blindness to whom they are obligated to make available a free appropriate public education under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or some other authority and provide early intervention services under part H of IDEA;
(ii) Provide preservice or inservice training to paraprofessionals, professionals or related services personnel preparing to serve, or serving, children with deaf-blindness;
(iii) Replicate successful, innovative approaches to providing early intervention, educational or related services to children with deaf-blindness;
(iv) Facilitate parental involvement in the education of their children with deaf-blindness;
(v) Provide consultative and counseling services for professionals, paraprofessionals, parents, and others who play a direct role in the lives of children with deaf-blindness, to enable them to understand the special problems of those children, and to assist in the provision of appropriate services to those children; and
(vi) Promote the integration of children with deaf-blindness with children with other disabilities and without disabilities.
(3) The services described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section to children with deaf-blindness to whom a State is obligated to make available a free appropriate public education under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and to whom the State is providing those services under some other authority.
(b)(1) Each grantee under this section shall give priority in the use of project funds to the provision of services described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section and to the provision of technical assistance as described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section.
(i) Give first priority in the use of project funds to the provision of services described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section; and
(ii) Give second priority in the use of project funds to the provision of technical assistance to State educational agencies, as described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section.
(2) Any remaining funds may be used by the grantee, upon request of the State educational agency, for pilot projects.
(c) Each grantee under this section shall—
(1) Develop and implement procedures to evaluate the effectiveness of services to children with deaf-blindness which it provides under paragraph (a)(1) of this section;
(2) Provide technical assistance to the public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations served under paragraph (a)(2) of this section in the development and implementation of procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of services they provide to children with deaf-blindness; and
(3) Engage in on-going coordination with the State educational agency, the State's lead agency under part H of the IDEA, and other State agencies responsible for providing services to children with deaf-blindness, in the provision of services under this section.
(d) For the purpose of making awards under § 307.11, the Secretary may make awards for single or multi-State projects. Each State may be served through only one project.
(a) The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part for projects that establish and support programs for the provision of technical assistance on the activities authorized under § 307.11.
(b) Technical assistance services made available under this section must be requested by a grantee under § 307.11, the lead agency under part H, or a State educational agency, and may be extended at the request of the § 307.11 grantee, the lead agency under part H, or a State educational agency to local
(1) Enhance personnel training programs by, for example, making available the combined expertise of highly trained and experienced professionals from the fields of education and early intervention for children with deaf-blindness;
(2) Apply effective and relevant educational and early intervention research findings; and
(3) Replicate effective methodology and curricula in educating children with deaf-blindness, and in providing early intervention services to children with deaf-blindness.
(c) Technical assistance services made available under this section are to be determined by mutual agreement between the § 307.12 technical assistance grantee and the § 307.11 grantee, the lead agency under part H, or the State education agency.
(a) The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part to provide technical assistance to State educational agencies in making available to adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness, programs and services to facilitate their transition from education to employment and other services such as vocational, independent living, and other postsecondary services.
(b) Each grantee under this section must provide each of the following services:
(1) Technical assistance to agencies institutions, and organizations that are preparing adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness for adult placement, or that are preparing to receive adolescents or young adults with deaf-blindness into adult living and work environments, or that serve, or propose to serve adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness.
(2) Training or inservice training to paraprofessionals or professionals serving, or preparing to serve, those adolescents and young adults, as well as training to their parents.
(3) Assistance in the development or replication of successful innovative approaches to providing rehabilitative, supervised, semi-supervised, or independent living programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term
(1) Counseling, training, and other services to assist adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness to adjust to work environments and employment options;
(2) Information concerning relevant public services available to assist adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness in transition from educational to other services, including, recreational and leisure time resources, rehabilitative, supervised, semi-supervised, or independent living programs, and the procedures for assessing those services; and
(3) Assistance to relevant agencies in the development of individualized work-related plans for adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness.
(d) Each grantee under this section shall develop and implement strategies to promote coordination between State and local agencies, institutions, and organizations that are preparing adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness for adult placements, or that are preparing to receive adolescents or young adults with deaf-blindness into adult living and work environments, or that serve, or propose to serve adolescents or young adults with deaf-blindness, including agencies providing rehabilitative, vocational, health, career planning and development, and social services, and agencies providing a range of supervised and unsupervised living options.
(e) Each grantee under this section shall assess the effectiveness of the project in facilitating the transition of adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness from education to employment and other services such as
The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part to successful applicants under § 307.11, to support pilot projects described at § 307.10(d).
The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this part to support the following activities:
(a) Identification, coordination, and dissemination of information on deaf-blindness, emphasizing information concerning practices developed through research, development or demonstration activities that have produced statistical or narrative data establishing their effectiveness in working with children with deaf-blindness, including—
(1) Special educational and early intervention programs, services, and resources;
(2) Related medical, health, social, and recreational services;
(3) The nature of deaf-blindness and its early intervention, educational, and employment implications;
(4) Legal issues affecting persons with disabilities; and
(5) Information on available services and programs in postsecondary education for adolescents and young adults with deaf-blindness.
(b) Interaction with educators, professional groups, and parents to identify areas for programming, materials development, training, and expansion of specific services.
(c) Maintenance of a computerized data base on local, regional, and national resources.
(d) Responding to information requests from professionals, parents, and members of the public.