D.F.

*541 Opinion

Appellant, the father of the minor, appeals from orders made at a dispositional hearing followed by a rehearing at which he was denied reunification services. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 252, 360, subd. (d), 395; further statutory references are to this code.) Appellant claims the juvenile court erred by denying him services. He also maintains the social services agency failed to adequately apprise the court of information concerning his deafness. Finding no merit to these claims, we shall affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In July 2006, a petition was filed by the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) concerning the nearly 12-year-old minor, alleging physical abuse by the minor’s mother and her boyfriend, and physical and sexual abuse by appellant. The petition was later amended to add an allegation that the minor was at substantial risk of suffering serious emotional damage, in part as a result of sexual abuse perpetrated by appellant. Appellant, who is deaf, appeared with an American Sign Language interpreter throughout the proceedings. He denied he had abused the minor in any way. ,

The minor previously had been made a…