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[quote=Anonymous]OP.  DCPS is notorious for having terrible special education.  If your chid is hard of hearing and will need assistance with hearing aids, speech/language therapy and maybe specialized language instruction, I would really advise you to thoroughly checkout the DCPS options for the HoH.  It used to be that DCPS special education was so bad that parents regularly got private placement paid for by DC because it couldn't meet its FAPE obligation under IDEA.  But, that is increasingly less and less the case.  I'm not sure if DCPS has increased its own capacity to educate HoH kids.  Ask about it on the DCUM Special Needs thread.

I have a child with a mixed expressive receptive language disorder and auditory processing issues, but not HoH, and I moved out of DC when he was very young because it was clear that DC special ed couldn't handle even his mild needs.

I now live in MoCo, MD, and the HoH families seem to be happy with MCPS HoH services, but I am not close enough to know the details.  The woman who runs the services, Louise Colodzin, has been around for a very long time.  Obviously, living in MoCo would create a commute, although from Silver Spring to Union Station is about 1/2 hour by metro (not including house to station and it's not cheap, although you would probably have a fed transportation benefit).

It's a different thing if you can get access to a special program at Galludet as a previous PP suggested.  You might also contact the River School, which is a K-3 private in DC.  It has a model that places a few HoH kids in a mainstream class with in class support from speech/language pathologists alongside the teacher and a very language intensive program.  My understanding is that some public school systems will place kids under FAPE/IDEA at River School, but do your own research on this.

Again, strongly encourage you to ask HoH questions on the DCUM special needs thread.[/quote]

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