Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
Official title: A bill to promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, ha… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
This bill expands special education and related services for children and youth who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.
For example, the bill requires states to more specifically identify and evaluate children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind to better allow for the provision of appropriate services.
In addition, a state's closure of a specialized school serving children who are blind or deaf shall result in a reduction of its financial support for special education and related services.
The bill also authorizes support, including grants for training special education personnel, to prepare individuals to become qualified teachers and early intervention specialists for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.
Finally, the bill establishes within the Department of Education the Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence to better support students with visual disabilities receiving special education and related services.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4676: Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4676/
"S. 4676: Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4676/.
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