New Jersey § 18a:46-2

§ 18a:46-2.

a. The Department of Education, in an effort to assist deaf and hard of hearing children

in becoming linguistically ready for kindergarten and in consultation with the Department

of Health, shall develop a parent resource guide for use by parents of deaf and hard

of hearing children. The parent resource guide shall: (1) help parents monitor and track deaf and hard of hearing children's expressive

and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy

by presenting language developmental milestones; (2) be appropriate for use, in both content and administration, with deaf and hard

of hearing children from birth to five years of age, who use both or one of the languages

of American Sign Language and English; (3) be written for clarity and ease of use by parents; (4) be aligned to existing instruments used by school districts to assess the development

of children with disabilities pursuant to federal and State law; (5) include a statement that the parent resource guide is not a formal assessment

of language and literacy development, and that a parent's observations of his child

may differ from formal assessment data collected as part of a professional evaluation;

and (6) include a statement that a parent may bring the parent resource guide to a child

study team meeting for purposes of sharing observations about the child's development. b. The department shall incorporate the recommendations provided by the working group

established pursuant to section 1 of this act 1 into the parent resource guide. c. The department shall make the parent resource guide developed pursuant to this

section publicly available on its website. 1

N.J.S.A. § 18A:46-2.10.