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Senate committee gives due-pass recommendation to bill renaming special‑education categories
Summary
House Bill 1164 would change the label “emotional disturbance” to “emotional disability” and rename hearing impairment to “deaf or hard of hearing” to align state terminology with federal language and reduce stigma; the committee voted 5–0 to advance the bill.
Representative Cynthia Schreiberback told the Senate Education Committee that House Bill 1164 was requested by the North Dakota Association of School Psychologists and would change state special‑education labels to more current terminology.
"The requested change would eliminate the negative connotation attached to the word…
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