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USDB outlines outreach role, IEP process and 9,000‑minute caseload benchmark for teachers
Summary
Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind staff described outreach services, IEP roles and a 9,000‑minute annual caseload target for teacher full‑time equivalency during a state board working committee meeting; members pressed for data and warned against staff cuts that could overload providers and reduce services.
Leanne Wood, chair of the Financial Operations working committee, introduced the second topic Wednesday: “we're going to move on to discussion on our outreach services,” a USDB staff member said after the transportation segment.
USDB staff explained that outreach services are provided after a local education agency (LEA) completes an IEP evaluation and determines services; if the IEP team wishes to consider USDB, a teacher of the visually impaired or teacher of the deaf conducts assessments and proposes vision or hearing‑related goals and minutes. ‘‘The team also determines related services, which help the student access special education,’’ Leah Voorhees, deputy superintendent of student achievement, told the committee.
Why it matters: committee members said the outreach model provides statewide expertise for low‑incidence sensory disabilities, which many small districts or…
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