Section 20-8-120 - Communications skills required of certain employees(1) Each permanent employee of the school who works with deaf children or works for or with a fellow employee who is deaf shall acquire acceptable total communications skills as prescribed by the board of public education by the end of the first year of employment.(2) Upon request to the board of public education by the superintendent, an exception to this requirement may be made for an employee not working directly with deaf children.En. Sec. 13, Ch. 151, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 311, Ch. 56, L. 2009.