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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 11, 2026

The Screener Was Listening: AI, Child Find and the Children It Cannot Hear

A List in September Every September, Pine Lake’s kindergarten and first grade teachers sit each child down with…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 10, 2026

Six Children, One Sentence: The Special Factors a Generator Cannot Write

Six Files After the Hearing The hearing officer’s decision in part six ordered Pine Lake to reconvene Nora’s…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 10, 2026

Counting Is Not Closing: Why We Built the National Deaf Education Data Index

When a letter from notice@ndedi.org arrives at a state school for the deaf, it lands on the desk…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 9, 2026

The Cord Broke on Saturday. On Monday, He Had No Way In.

Saturday, a bent cord A cochlear implant is two pieces of hardware. One is surgically placed under the…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 9, 2026

Exhibit P-4: The AI’s Draft Goes to a Hearing

The Choice on Dana’s Desk Part five ended with a short letter on Dana’s desk. Nora’s mother disagreed…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 8, 2026

Forty-Five Days: When a Parent Asks for the AI’s Draft

A Folder on the Kitchen Table Nora’s mother did not read part four. She heard about it on…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 7, 2026

Twenty Files: Auditing the AI-Drafted IEP

Twenty Files on a Monday Dana read part three on a Friday afternoon, in her office at Pine…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 5, 2026

We Read the Terms for the IEP Generators

What We Did In part two, NCG proposed seven contract clauses for any system that generates text for…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 1, 2026

The Contract Never Asked for the Draft

The Renewal Pine Lake Public Schools serves about 5,400 students across seven buildings, 740 of them on an…

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