The Northeast Service Cooperative Regional Low Incidence Project provides audiological services for students with suspected or diagnosed hearing loss.

Services Available:

Audiology

• Provide comprehensive, educationally relevant hearing tests, and classroom acoustic evaluations.
• Makes recommendations for and ensures the proper fit and functioning of hearing aids and other listening devices.
• Collaborates with school, parents, teachers and community agencies.
• Assists in program decisions as a member of the educational team.
• Provides in-service training to parents, children and school personnel on hearing, hearing loss, hearing aids, and other technology to optimize residual hearing.
• Promotes leadership to ensure that all infants, toddlers and youth with hearing loss are promptly identified, evaluated and provided with appropriate intervention services.
• Coordinates Regional Low Incidence inservice/training days.
• Participation in Statewide Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Team Training.

Statewide Related Programs

• Auditory Learning Strategies 2006-2008 Team Training
• Interpreter Training/Skill Building Coordination
• Interpreter Mentoring Program

Click here for the MN Deaf and Hard of Hearing Criteria. 

Staff Contact Information:

Phyllis Hauck, Regional Low Incidence Facilitator
(218) 748-7606

Click here for the 2008 MN Auditory Learning Project - Responses from Mentors 

 Click here for the 2009 MN Auditory Learning Project - Responses from Mentors