How should the listening and speaking tests be administered to a student with a hearing impairment?
The passages in Session 3Listening ordinarily presented to students by playing a prerecorded audiocassette tape may be signed using American Sign Language (ASL) to students with hearing impairments who know ASL. Students with hearing impairments who are not proficient in ASL may read those passages. Schools requiring written transcripts of the listening passages so that they can be signed to or read by a student with a hearing impairment should contact the Office of State Assessment via e-mail to emscassessinfo@mail.nysed.gov. The interactions between student and teacher associated with Session 4Speaking may be conducted through the use of signing with ASL for students with hearing impairments who know ASL. In the case of students with hearing impairments who are not proficient in ASL, such interactions may occur through the exchanging of notes written in English by the teacher and student.
