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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="8-602" title_number="8" title_name="Special Programs for Exceptional Children" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Hearing Aid and Language and Communication Video Loan Bank Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Hearing Aid and Language and Communication Video Loan Bank Program in the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Program is established for the purpose of lending or providing:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Hearing aids on a temporary basis to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual who has no immediate access to a hearing aid to ensure that eligible individuals will have maximum auditory input throughout childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Language and communication videos on a temporary basis and resources that may be downloaded from a website to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual to ensure that parents or legal guardians of eligible individuals have:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Access to resources that provide them with unbiased information about language and communication options to use with their deaf or hard of hearing child; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Resources to teach them the language or other means of communication that they choose to use with their deaf or hard of hearing child.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Program shall employ an otolaryngologist or a licensed audiologist.</text>
  </level>
</section>
