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SECTION 33.12
Hearing evaluation
Mental Hygiene (MHY) CHAPTER 27, TITLE E, ARTICLE 33
§ 33.12 Hearing evaluation.

The office for people with developmental disabilities shall provide
suitable hearing evaluations periodically for the residents in state
schools. Upon the ascertainment that any resident so evaluated is deaf
or hard of hearing, it shall be the duty of the office to provide
suitable remedial efforts, to include, but not be limited to, hearing
aids, alternative forms of communication and auditory training to
overcome this handicap and to ascertain the true level of intelligence
of such residents.