New Jersey Statutes Title 18A. Education 18A § 46-2.12

(1) help parents monitor and track deaf and hard of hearing children's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy by presenting language developmental milestones;

(2) be appropriate for use, in both content and administration, with deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to five years of age, who use both or one of the languages of American Sign Language and English;

(3) be written for clarity and ease of use by parents;

(4) be aligned to existing instruments used by school districts to assess the development of children with disabilities pursuant to federal and State law;

(5) include a statement that the parent resource guide is not a formal assessment of language and literacy development, and that a parent's observations of his child may differ from formal assessment data collected as part of a professional evaluation; and

(6) include a statement that a parent may bring the parent resource guide to a child study team meeting for purposes of sharing observations about the child's development.