What We Do
- People to turn to when hitting roadblocks with hearing and vision
- Work with OT/PT/O&M and any other service provider when working with the combination of hearing and vision loss
- Brainstorming activities for children to engage with at home and community
- Support in IEP meetings and IFSP meetings
- Communication ideas
- Observations in home, school, or other activities to see what’s working and not working
- Setting short term and long term goals to focus on to help keep things in reach
- Transition planning from home to preschool, preschool to school, school transitions, transitions preparing for life after school
IEP support, IFSP support, IEP Development, Resources, Coaching, Training, Observations, Brainstorming, Goal Setting, Communication, Prompts, Understanding, Frustration, Touch Cues, Being Involved, Community Opportunities, Transition
Services offered: (LIST AND EXPLAIN)
- IEP development
- Attend meetings related to education and transition (IEP, IFSP, Vocational Rehabilitation)
- Resources
- Facebook Pages, public, closed family page and closed teacher page
- Collaboration with
- Trainings, on-site,
- Observations
- Brainstorming
- Connect with others in similar professions, family situations (families 2families
Who we work with
- Family
- General Education Teachers
- Special Education Teachers
- Teacher for the Visually Impaired (TVI)
- Teacher for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing (TDHH)
- Occupational Therapist (OT)
- Physical Therapist (PT)
- Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
- Developmental Interventionist (DI)
- Administrators
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- School Psychologists
- Interveners
- Interpreters
What we can do
Is the team struggling with coming up with meaningful IEP goals that support the growth and development of the DeafBlind student?
We can help with that! By looking at where the student is at now, the skills and abilities they already have and working together with the team to develop goals to promote further growth from the student.
Do you keep trying to teach a concept that just doesn’t seem to be sticking?
We can help you brainstorm other ideas of how to teach that concept while keeping in mind the combined hearing and vision loss the student has. We can offer insights to approaches that have worked in the past with some of the students we’ve worked with. The team would implement some of these ideas and then let us know if that is successful or not and we can either build on it or go back to the drawing board with you!
Is this the first DeafBlind student you have had as a teacher and you feel unequipped?
Reach out to us and we can talk to you more about your specific student! We can provide training to each member of that student’s team to feel more confident and ready to teach that child. We can also do observations in the school setting, community setting, or home setting and share feedback with what we see and how we might best support a specific student to be the most successful.
Do you feel like you tell your child/student the same things over and over throughout the day and would like to find strategies to lessen the prompts you have to give?
We can help with that! We can access what those prompts are and explore other options with you that may lessen the prompts given and encourage independence within the child/student.
Do you feel that you really understand one part of a child’s diagnosis but not any of the other parts?
You can reach out to us for further information! That may come in the form of a conversation, shared resources, workshop opportunities, connections with other families or professionals, or other avenues that are necessary to strengthen the understanding of the complete diagnosis and how each part is connected with each other; especially the hearing and vision loss combination.