10-144 C.M.R. ch. 279, § 9.0 - ADVISORY BOARD
9.1 The Advisory
Board shall oversee the administration of the Program, advise the Commissioner
of the Department of Human Services on issues relating to the Program, and
recommend procedures for hearing screening, evaluation, treatment and services.
The Board will report each year to the joint standing committees of the
Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters and
education matters on the program, the percentages of children being screened
and evaluated and those children being offered and receiving intervention and
treatment services. The report shall be made available to the public.
9.2 The Advisory Board shall consist of an
odd number of members, numbering at least 15, appointed by the Governor,
including but not limited to the following: an audiologist, a physician, a
speech-language pathologist, a nurse, a certified teacher of the deaf and a
person who provides early intervention services to children who are deaf or
hard-of-hearing through the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, a person who
is culturally Deaf, a person who is hard-of-hearing or deaf and a parent of a
hearing impaired child, a representative of the hospitals, a representative of
health carriers, a representative of the Child Development Services System
established in Title 20-A, section 7724 and a representative of the
Department.
9.3 Advisory Board
members may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred to
attend board meetings but are not entitled to per diem payments. The Department
of Human Services shall provide financial and staff support for the
Board.
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