Message from Joe Coelho
AUDITORY TRAINING EQUIPMENT (FM) YEAR END PROCEDURES, June 2004
FM equipment loaned to schools/districts from the Auditory Training Equipment Program has traditionally been sent to Public Health Audiology Clinics for summer check and storage. In an effort to minimize the disruption from one school year to the next, to ensure FM equipment is readily available when students return to school in September, and to address the changing needs of the school and public health systems (schools with balanced calendars, students attending summer school, reduced resources at some of the clinics, etc.) we would like to initiate the following year end procedures for Ministry of Education owned FM:
1. FM equipment used by the same student the following school year should be checked for proper functioning at the end of the year and stored in secure facilities at the school/district over the summer. Teachers may find the attached FM checking procedures useful. If more information, or guidance to check the proper functioning of equipment is needed please contact Vernon Currie at 604-485-6271.
2. Some Public Health audiology clinics have informed us that they do not assume responsibility for Ministry of Education owned FM equipment sent to them; therefore, schools/districts remain responsible in the event of loss or damage of equipment they send to the local Public Health Audiology clinic for checking and storage.
3. The following Ministry of Education owned FM equipment must be returned to the Technical Support Center in Powell River before the end of June:
-All equipment and accessories in need of repair
-any equipment that will not be used by the same student the next school year
-all accessories no longer needed by students
-all equipment currently used as backup
4. Please fill out the datatabase template attached and list all thestudents in your school district you know will be using ProvincialResource Program FM in September 2004. Please send it electronically byJune 15th 2003, to vcurrie@sd47.bc.ca
If you have any questions, or suggestions to better address your
school/district FM needs please give me a call or contact Vernon Currieat 604-485-6271. I anticipate that some folks will have difficulty withthe attachments. If so, please give Vernon a call and he will make sureyou get a good copy. Vernon has also developed some suggestions and considerations for equipment security plans that he will be sharing
through the ATE and HRT listserves.
Regards
Joe Coelho
Director, Provincial Programs
School District No. 47 (Powell River)
Direct phone: 604-525-0502
Year End FM Listening Check.doc
Copy of ATE inventory submission.xls
ATE-equipment repair template-year end.doc