Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To better ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through specialized instructional services and methodologies designed to meet their unique language and learning needs. (2) To better ensure delivery of high-quality early intervention services to children and youth who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind, and their families, through specialized services and methodologies designed to meet their unique language and other developmental needs. (3) To foster the proliferation of research supporting the development and evaluation of effective and innovative assessments and instructional methodologies consonant with the unique learning needs of children and youth who are blind or visually impaired. (4) To enhance accountability for the provision of such services. (5) To support the development of personnel serving children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind.