Deaf students should be provided access to the MAP test in their preferred language including ASL. We can get more accurate data if we know the students are comprehending what is being asked of them.

Our deaf students deserve ASL access to portions of the MAP test that are unrelated to reading skills. Help our deaf community

As a teacher of the deaf and a parent of a deaf child, this is critical to me. This testing at school does not accurately reflect what students who communicate with ASL actually know. Deaf students are often excluded from certain portions of the tests because administrators know this test does not allow them the access to language that they need. Please allow teachers to use ASL as an accommodation for the D/HH students so that the data is a more accurate indicator of student growth. Thank you!

Agree with adding ASL above, as well as removing sound-based phonics components for students with no access to sound as Jennifer mentioned below.

If there is a portion that can be read aloud with accommodations such as text-to-speech for questions on the reading (not the passages) then there should be an ASL interpretation video to watch. STAAR has these accommodations.

Please support our deaf education community.

Yes!! It is so exhausting having to interpret each test individually. Because they are not all the same questions.

For those with specific accommodations, all parts of the test should have ASL interpretation to meet the diverse needs of students including passages for those who have that accommodation.

All components of MAP should he interpreted. The ACT has this feature for all parts of their test already. Additionally, any phonics based skills should be removed if a student does not have any access to sound, ie profoundly deaf without amplification.

In the move toward "Full Inclusion," this also means "Full Access." Many Deaf children benefit from ASL as an option to access any testing, including MAP.

Our deaf students deserve ASL access to portions of the MAP test that are unrelated to reading skills.