{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "Nevada", "state_number": "28", "postal_code": "NV", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-09-28", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/nv/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23252957", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "Nevada has never built a school for deaf students. From 1956 the state paid to send a deaf or blind child to a school in another state when the child's own district could not teach the child, but the law that did this was repealed in 2016 and never replaced, and no one now publishes whether any child is still placed out of state. In place of a school, Nevada has two county programs that teach deaf students. Clark County, in Las Vegas, runs a Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program with both spoken-language and sign-language settings, interpreters, and audiologists. Washoe County, in Reno, provides hearing services with direct instruction and a district audiologist. Three more districts mention hearing only in passing, and fifteen units publish nothing about it, including the state agency that oversees charter schools. Nevada is unusual because it reports how many deaf students each district has: about 553 deaf or hard of hearing students statewide on the count used here, most of them in Clark and Washoe, with many small counts hidden to protect privacy. Nevada sets a clear standard for the interpreters who work in its schools and keeps a statewide list of them, but it trains few teachers of the deaf and has no program in the state to prepare them. A state commission has asked lawmakers to study or build a deaf school, and volunteers have drafted a plan for one, but no lawmaker has taken it up. Who teaches a deaf child in Nevada's smallest counties is not published by the county, by the state, or by anyone.", "frame": { "statement": "The frame is the twenty local educational agencies the Nevada Department of Education counts in its 2025-26 directory and its IDEA child count: the seventeen county school districts, the State Public Charter School Authority, the University unit (Davidson Academy) and the Correctional unit (Independence High School, Nevada Youth Training Center). The charter organizations the Authority and the districts sponsor are a class carved out of the frame under NRS 388A.088 and swept for deaf and hard of hearing content, not counted as units.", "frame_count": 20, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "Charter schools (State Public Charter School Authority- and district-sponsored)", "count": 63, "basis": "NRS 388A.088: the sponsor is deemed the local educational agency for its charter schools, so the charter organizations are a carved-out class, not units. Swept as the carve-out on 27 September 2026: 61 NONE FOUND, 2 NOT OPERATING (Nevada Prep, Sage Collegiate)." }, { "class": "Early-learning and pre-kindergarten-only rows in the directory", "count": 0, "basis": "Carried in the directory but not counted as local educational agencies; none provides a deaf program (v1.0 finding, re-verified)." } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Deaf-blindness is carried where the state's child count and the Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project name it; the state's 1 October 2024 count is 10, the NCDB 1 December 2024 count is 120, and the two are recorded side by side and never reconciled because they rest on different definitions.", "readable_subset": 20, "weak_evidence_count": 0 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "A universal-screening sentence naming hearing (Churchill County) is coded MENTION under the screening normalization, not a program.", "An eligibility or disability-category list naming hearing impairment (Elko County) is coded MENTION under the definition-only normalization.", "An outside-agency resource link with hearing content (Lyon County, the Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project) is coded MENTION with the provider named, under the undifferentiated-outside-agency normalization.", "USDA nondiscrimination boilerplate naming American Sign Language (Carson City) is a standing false positive, not hearing content.", "A speech-language pathologist titled in 'Speech Pathology and Audiology' is an SLP, not an audiologist (the Maine normalization).", "An American Sign Language course sets the ASL-course indicator without changing the coverage code (Doral Academy of Northern Nevada).", "For a multi-campus charter network one campus host is swept in full and the others are listed unread; the sweep tests the class carve-out, not the frame.", "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery; a suppressed child-count cell is kept as the state's asterisk, never filled." ], "method_limitations": "Four limitations bound this run. The Nevada Early Intervention Services (Part C) pages are robots-blocked to the harness fetch and were not read in the rendered browser, so the established-conditions rule and the transition at three are a retrieval gap. The Department's IEP form was not read, so how the consideration duty of NRS 388.437 sits on it is not established. Most by-district hearing-impairment cells are suppressed by the state, so the baseline publication measure rests on the two published cells (Clark and the State Public Charter School Authority) against the statewide total. The IDEA Part B and Part C allocations were not obtained, and the Department of Taxation's tax-credit scholarship reports could not be located, so participation by disability in that program is unknown.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 2, "percent_of_frame": 10, "percent_of_readable": 10 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 3, "percent_of_frame": 15, "percent_of_readable": 15 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 15, "percent_of_frame": 75, "percent_of_readable": 75 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "county school district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "county school district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "county school district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 12 }, { "agency_type": "state charter authority (LEA under NRS 388A.088)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "state juvenile correctional school unit", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "university school for profoundly gifted pupils (NRS 388C)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project", "provider_names_count": null, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "10 Lyon County School District" ] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": true, "identified_population": { "value": 553, "year": "2024-10-01", "source_n": 1, "note": "Statewide pupils identified with hearing impairment, 1 October 2024 IDEA child count (baseline, D-032); 544 on 1 October 2025." }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": 408, "year": "2024-10-01", "source_n": 1, "note": "Sum of the published hearing-impairment cells of the units coded PROGRAM: Clark County 408. Washoe County operates a program but the state suppresses its cell (asterisk), so it adds nothing to the visible capacity though the program operates." }, "note": "Of 553 pupils identified with hearing impairment statewide on the baseline, 408 sit in a unit that both operates a deaf program and publishes its count (Clark). At the wider unit-cell level, the share of the statewide count carried in any published unit cell (program or not) is 451 of 553 (81.6 percent) on the baseline (Clark 408 plus the State Public Charter School Authority 43, which operates no program) and 525 of 544 on the 2025 comparison year (Clark 406, Washoe 55, State Public Charter School Authority 42, Lyon 12, Elko 10). The state suppresses a unit cell of nine or fewer with an asterisk, so most rural units' entire hearing-impairment count is a suppressed cell." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Placement criteria and IEP communication considerations", "figure": { "value": "the IEP team 'shall consider' the pupil's primary language and mode of communication, opportunities for direct communication with peers and personnel, and opportunities for direct instruction in that language and mode; a 2019 amendment extends the duty to children under six", "year": "2026", "source_n": 6, "note": "NRS 388.437. No regulation imports these into the IEP form or requires a communication plan; NAC 388 was read in full and carries none." } }, { "indicator": "Hearing-impairment eligibility (audiometric gates)", "figure": { "value": "deaf at an average hearing threshold of 92 decibels or more; hard of hearing at 30 decibels or more; either threshold is sufficient on its own; deaf-blindness opens at 26 decibels with a vision criterion", "year": "2026", "source_n": 6, "note": "NAC 388.390; NAC 388.427." } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments, hearing impairment (by category)", "figure": { "value": "of 518 school-age pupils with hearing impairment in SY 2024-25: 307 in regular class 80 percent or more of the day (59.3 percent), 108 at 40 to 79 percent, 99 at less than 40 percent, 0 in a separate school, 0 in a residential facility, 1 homebound, 2 in a correctional facility, 1 parentally placed in a private school; 22 of 35 preschoolers in a separate class", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 2, "note": "The state publishes environments only at all-disability level (indicator 5A, 59.61 percent); the by-category read is the federal IDEA Section 618 file. No Nevada pupil with hearing impairment was in a separate or residential school." } }, { "indicator": "American Sign Language as world-language credit", "figure": { "value": "ASL does not satisfy world-language credit under rule: NAC 389.046 defines a world language as 'any spoken language other than English'; AB 247 (2025) section 3 would have changed NRS 389.520 and failed", "year": "2026", "source_n": 8, "note": "The commission's request for statutory recognition is a request to change the rule." } }, { "indicator": "Language and literacy development report (LEAD-K-type law)", "figure": { "value": "reports posted for CY2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024, for ages birth to three only, without disability disaggregation and without the comparison group the statute requires; the CY2024 report counts 140 children", "year": "2024", "source_n": 9, "note": "NRS 388.5155 to 388.5195. The statute says 'on or before July 31'; the CY2022 report quotes February 15 (conflict recorded); no parent resource was found." } }, { "indicator": "Identified population by agency (baseline)", "figure": { "value": "on the 1 October 2024 baseline only Clark (408) and the State Public Charter School Authority (43) publish a hearing-impairment cell; every other unit's cell is suppressed; statewide 553", "year": "2024-10-01", "source_n": 1, "note": "Nevada publishes its child count to unit level by disability, uniquely in the series so far." } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "2015-10-01", "identified_hi": 523, "identified_db": 8, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2016-10-01", "identified_hi": 524, "identified_db": 12, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2017-10-01", "identified_hi": 546, "identified_db": null, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2018-10-01", "identified_hi": 526, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2019-10-01", "identified_hi": 534, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2020-10-01", "identified_hi": 546, "identified_db": 9, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2021-10-01", "identified_hi": 546, "identified_db": 7, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2022-10-03", "identified_hi": 563, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2023-10-02", "identified_hi": 548, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2024-10-01", "identified_hi": 553, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 1 }, { "year": "2025-10-01", "identified_hi": 544, "identified_db": 7, "source_n": 1 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "not applicable", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "state appropriations acts swept for a named deaf-education line; none exists because Nevada operates no state school for the deaf", "citation": "SB 500 (2025) read in full; former NRS chapter 395 (repealed)", "note": "Nevada has never operated a school for the deaf, so no deaf school appears by name in an appropriations act. The nearest named instrument was the 1956 out-of-state purchase program (former NRS chapter 395), whose operating sections SB 508 (2015) repealed effective 1 July 2016. There is no named deaf-education appropriation to record." }, { "channel": "General formula funding (Pupil-Centered Funding Plan)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2025-26 and 2026-27", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Pupil-Centered Funding Plan statewide base per pupil with weights of 0.45 for English learners, 0.35 for at-risk pupils and 0.12 for gifted pupils, and no weight for any disability", "citation": "SB 500 (2025); NRS 387.121 to 387.1214", "note": "Base per pupil 9,416 dollars (2025-26) and 9,486 dollars (2026-27). The formula reaches the county school districts, where deaf and hard of hearing pupils are served; Nevada operates no state school for it to reach. Special education is funded outside the weighted tier (the mechanism below)." }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2025-26 and 2026-27", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "a statewide multiplier for pupils with disabilities, limited to actual enrollment not to exceed 13 percent of total enrollment (half the multiplier per pupil above 13 percent), financed from the Account for State Special Education Services", "citation": "NRS 387.122; SB 500 (2025) section 8", "note": "SB 500 section 8 appropriates 257,566,256 dollars (2025-26) and 262,431,514 dollars (2026-27) to the Account: 256,066,256 and 260,931,514 dollars transferred for the subsection 1 multiplier, 1,500,000 dollars each year for the above-13-percent multiplier, and 2,000,000 dollars each year from non-General-Fund money. No weight, category or set-aside attaches to hearing impairment, deafness or low-incidence disability; the per-pupil value of the multiplier is NOT PUBLISHED." }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "from 2016-17", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "the Account for State Special Education Services reimburses extraordinary program expenses and related services for pupils with significant disabilities whose costs exceed the district's or charter's available funding", "citation": "NRS 388.5243; NAC 388.319, 388.323", "note": "The reimbursement is the surviving section of the former out-of-state purchase-statute range. No threshold, reimbursement rate, or deaf-specific draw is published; whether a residential or out-of-state placement draws on it is NOT PUBLISHED." }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B and Part C allocations to Nevada; the federal deaf-blind project grant to the Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project", "citation": "IDEA; NDSIP at the University of Nevada, Reno", "note": "The IDEA Part B and Part C allocations were not obtained this run and no deaf-specific portion is identifiable. The federal deaf-blind project grant amount and cycle for the Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project are NOT PUBLISHED." }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "the dormant out-of-state residential-placement framework (application, selection, state payment, transport) surviving in regulation while its enabling statute sections stand repealed", "citation": "NRS 388.5223 to 388.5243; NAC 388.460 to 388.488", "note": "The 1956 purchase program let a district that could not educate a deaf or blind child apply to place the child in another state's school at state expense; SB 508 (2015) repealed the operating sections effective 1 July 2016, leaving NAC 388.460 to 388.488 describing an application, transport reimbursement and annual certification that cite repealed sections. Whether any Nevada child is placed out of state today, and who pays, is NOT PUBLISHED." }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "annual", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program (tax-credit scholarship); disability appears only as a reporting category, never as an eligibility or award factor", "citation": "NRS 388D.270 to 388D.296; NRS 363A.139; SB 460 (2025)", "note": "Credit cap 6,655,000 dollars per year; grants up to 7,755 dollars for households at or below 300 percent of poverty. Participation by disability is unknown (Department of Taxation reports not located). Education savings accounts (SB 302, 2015) were enjoined in Schwartz v. Lopez and no such account operates." }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "not applicable", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "state capital and construction acts swept for a deaf-school project; none attaches because no state school exists", "citation": "none located", "note": "Nevada operates no state school for the deaf, so no construction, renovation or campus line attaches to one. The 2026 commission draft bill proposes a 20,500,000 dollar appropriation for a Nevada School for the Deaf; it has no bill draft request number and no sponsor, and is recorded as a proposal, not an instrument." }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2016 to 2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Legislative Auditor and Department of Justice indexes swept for the commission, the interpreter program, the special education function and the charter authority", "citation": "Nevada Legislative Auditor report indexes 2016 to 2026; the five 2026 charter authority audits", "note": "No Legislative Auditor report touches the commission, the Division's interpreter program, or the Department's special education function; no Department of Justice educational-opportunities case names a Nevada district. The five 2026 audits of the State Public Charter School Authority concern class sizes, engagement, educational strategies, procurement and the accountability report, none deaf-specific." }, { "channel": "Adjacent channel: assistive technology (hearing aids)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "from 1 January 2020", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "the Aging and Disability Services Division supplies a hearing aid at no charge to a hard-of-hearing child under 13 in a low-income household", "citation": "SB 203 (2019)", "note": "No charge to the family; no dollar figure or count published. Recorded as an adjacent channel because it is public money reaching hard-of-hearing children outside the education formula." }, { "channel": "Adjacent channel: commission and interpreter access funding", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "ongoing", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "the commission and the Communication Access Services program are funded from the telecommunications surcharge account", "citation": "NRS 427A.797", "note": "No dollar figure for the education-facing share is published. Recorded as an adjacent channel because it funds the interpreter registry and access services that reach K-12." } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "registration with the Aging and Disability Services Division on an Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment score at least at level 4.0 or its equivalent, or provisionally at 3.5 for not more than 5 years total; a bachelor's degree of new applicants since 1 August 2023 (an associate's for provisional)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 5, "note": "NRS 656A.100; NAC 656A.290. The Division maintains a registry but 'does not have any oversight over a school district's actions beyond taking complaints'." } }, { "item": "Interpreter registry (count of registrations, not working interpreters)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "595 registrations on 1 July 2026 (183 in state); 149 carry an educational scope (105 in state); full educational-only 14, provisional educational 36", "year": "2026-07-01", "source_n": 5, "note": "Provisional educational registrations outnumber full educational-only ones." } }, { "item": "Interpreter preparation program in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "College of Southern Nevada Interpreter Preparation Program (the only interpreter or deaf-education preparation program named in any source)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 5, "note": "CSN's own degree pages returned 404 and its catalog is a JavaScript shell." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf license or endorsement", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "NAC 391.340 endorsement required before teaching pupils ages 3 to 21 with hearing impairments, with five routes including a Council for Education of the Deaf certificate", "year": "2026", "source_n": 7, "note": "No Nevada preparation program exists (the UNR degree list was read in full); the commission proposes letting candidates major in both special education and deaf and hard of hearing education." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf supply", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 2, "note": "The state publishes no teacher-of-the-deaf count; the federal IDEA Section 618 personnel table (the document checked) was not read to a number this run." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional / sign language aide standard", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "Clark County sign language aide candidates 'are required to successfully pass the sign language assessment'; no state paraprofessional standard for deaf and hard of hearing settings is published", "year": "2026", "source_n": 6, "note": "The state special-education regulations (NAC 388, the document checked) carry no paraprofessional standard for deaf and hard of hearing settings." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "the Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project at the University of Nevada, Reno provides technical assistance, identification help and a lending library; no state intervener credential is published", "year": "2026", "source_n": 7, "note": "The University of Nevada, Reno pages (the document checked) name the project; no state intervener credential is published." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologist standard and caseload", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "district audiologists are named (Clark, Washoe); a teacher's or specialist's caseload is capped at 20 pupils with hearing impairment and 4 with deaf-blindness, with a class of 6 (NAC 388.150); no separate state educational-audiologist standard was located", "year": "2026", "source_n": 6, "note": "" } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "NV-001", "entity_name": "State school for the deaf (none; structural row)", "entity_type": "Absence row", "operating_authority": "No statute creates one; the 1956 out-of-state purchase program (former NRS chapter 395) is repealed in operation (SB 508 (2015) sec. 30, effective 1 July 2016) and its eligibility remnant (NRS 388.5223) names no provider", "city": "Not applicable", "county": "Statewide", "educational_setting": "Placement rests with the 17 county districts and the three state-level LEAs under the ordinary IEP process; NRS 388.437 requires the IEP team to consider 'primary language and mode of communication' and 'direct communication with peers and professional personnel'" }, { "id": "NV-002", "entity_name": "Clark County School District Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program", "entity_type": "District program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Clark County School District, Student Services Division", "city": "Las Vegas", "county": "Clark County", "educational_setting": "'provides direct instruction, consultation, and transition services to students in both Aural/Oral (non-signing) and Total Communication (signing) settings'; no school site, cluster or center named on any page read (site searches for 'cluster' and 'itinerant' return no location page)" }, { "id": "NV-003", "entity_name": "Clark County School District Interpreting Services Department", "entity_type": "District service unit", "operating_authority": "Clark County School District, Student Services Division", "city": "Las Vegas", "county": "Clark County", "educational_setting": "'provides American Sign Language interpreting, speech-to-text transcription, and temporary 1:1 sign language aide support to meet the communication needs of individuals during instruction and district-sponsored activities'" }, { "id": "NV-004", "entity_name": "Clark County School District Audiology Services", "entity_type": "District service unit", "operating_authority": "Clark County School District, Student Services Division", "city": "Las Vegas", "county": "Clark County", "educational_setting": "'Audiologists perform individual diagnostic hearing evaluations on students using a variety of test measures including otoscopy, pure tones, speech perception, validation of hearing devices, play audiometry, immittance measurements, and otoacoustic emissions'" }, { "id": "NV-005", "entity_name": "Washoe County School District Hearing Impairment program", "entity_type": "District program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Washoe County School District, Special Education Student Services", "city": "Reno", "county": "Washoe County", "educational_setting": "'Semi-self-contained programming for students with hearing loss who require direct instruction in their primary communication modality (i.e. sign language and/or spoken English)'; 'Consultative and direct instruction for students with hearing loss in their mainstream setting'; 'hearing checks through the district Audiologist as required by their IEPs'; 'Audiology Technician to support equipment troubleshooting'" }, { "id": "NV-006", "entity_name": "Las Vegas Charter School of the Deaf (closed)", "entity_type": "Charter school (closed 2011)", "operating_authority": "Sponsor: Clark County School District (Las Vegas Sun, 2008; Review-Journal, 2012)", "city": "Las Vegas", "county": "Clark County", "educational_setting": "Charter school for deaf students; the only school-of-the-deaf to operate in Nevada" }, { "id": "NV-007", "entity_name": "Nevada Commission for Persons Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NVCDHH)", "entity_type": "State commission (advisory and advocacy)", "operating_authority": "Aging and Disability Services Division, Department of Health and Human Services (NRS 427A.750 'created within the Division'; Executive Director appointed by the Administrator, NRS 427A.752)", "city": "Carson City and Las Vegas (ADSD offices)", "county": "Statewide (Carson City and Las Vegas)", "educational_setting": "Not a provider: recommends, collects information, develops a statewide plan, advises the Department of Education 'on research and methods to ensure the availability of language and communication services for children' (427A.750(8)(f))" }, { "id": "NV-008", "entity_name": "ADSD Communication Access Services (CAS): interpreter registry and mentoring", "entity_type": "State program (regulator and registry)", "operating_authority": "Aging and Disability Services Division (NRS 656A.028, 656A.080)", "city": "Carson City and Las Vegas", "county": "Statewide", "educational_setting": "Registry of sign language interpreters and CART providers; one-on-one mentoring ('7 between 2 mentors'; K-12 setting 3); CASLI and EIPA study groups (11 in the 2026 EIPA practice group); Reflective Practice Collective; district professional development on request (Elko and Clark requests for 2026-27; Nye consultation)" }, { "id": "NV-009", "entity_name": "Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project (NDSIP)", "entity_type": "Federal state deafblind project (university-hosted)", "operating_authority": "University of Nevada, Reno, College of Education and Human Development (OSEP grant; OSEP Project Officer Eric Caruso)", "city": "Reno", "county": "Washoe County (UNR Reno); statewide reach", "educational_setting": "Not a placement: 'on-site technical assistance (e.g., consultants, in-service workshops, program review)', identification assistance, lending library, newsletter, annual parent conference" }, { "id": "NV-010", "entity_name": "Advisory Committee on Language Development for Children Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind or Visually Impaired (sitting as the SB203 Subcommittee of the Special Education Advisory Committee)", "entity_type": "State advisory committee (Department of Education)", "operating_authority": "Superintendent of Public Instruction (NRS 388.5175); thirteen members, 'at least seven members who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired'", "city": "Carson City", "county": "Statewide (Carson City)", "educational_setting": "Not a provider: recommends criteria (388.518), the State Board adopts them by regulation (388.519); the Department must publish a parent resource (388.5185) and an annual aggregated report (388.5195)" }, { "id": "NV-011", "entity_name": "Nevada Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI)", "entity_type": "State public health program", "operating_authority": "Division of Public and Behavioral Health, Department of Health and Human Services (NRS 442.500 to 442.560)", "city": "Carson City", "county": "Statewide", "educational_setting": "Screening before one month, evaluation before three months, early intervention before six months (1-3-6); 'a diagnosis of any degree of hearing loss is a qualifying diagnosis for EI'" }, { "id": "NV-012", "entity_name": "Nevada Early Intervention Services (Part C)", "entity_type": "State early intervention system", "operating_authority": "Department of Health and Human Services (Part C lead agency per the ECTA coordinator list; 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