Links to National and State Resources
Resources by Category
November 5, 6, and 7, 2009
The power points from the course of study that focuses on developing knowledge and skills in supporting individual students with both vision and hearing impairments including those with significant and multiple disabilities.
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National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness
The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) is a national technical assistance and dissemination center for children and youth who are deafblind. This website provides information such as job opportunities, trainings and conferences, recent articles, State deafblind projects, and technical assistance.
The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey is home to New Jersey’s Deaf-Blind Project, Deafblind-Family and Community Educational Supports (DB-FACES). DB-FACES provides assistance to families, service providers and other community members to facilitate their efforts in supporting infants, toddlers, children and youth with deafblindness.
Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired
The Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired offers instructional resources, current publications, assistive technology, as well as information on IFSPs and IEPs. This website has a variety of outreach services and support. Available in Spanish.
Oral Deaf Education
The Oral Deaf Education website offers free materials for teachers, educators, audiologists, and medical professionals. There are training programs for teachers as well as a list of schools in the country that offer oral Deaf education.
ASL University
ASL University is an online curriculum resource for anyone wanting to learn American Sign Language. There are curriculums made specifically for parents, teachers, and students. It includes lessons for the classroom and many materials to aid the teaching of American Sign Language.
Tactile American Sign Language
This page of Tactile American Sign Language from the Special Education Service Agency has an in depth description of Tactile American Sign (TAS) Language. It offers information on differences between ASL and TAS. Also, this page has diagrams and pictures to better the user’s understanding of TAS.
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults
The Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults strives to enable each person who is deafblind the opportunity to live and work in their community of choice. The website includes information on Usher Syndrome and Congenital Rubella Syndrome.
Perkins School for the Blind
http://www.perkins.org/oncampus/deafblind/
A page on deafblindness from Perkins School for the Blind offers creative approaches to learning, and the importance of communication. This page offers curriculum options from pre-school to vocational studies. The site also includes information on CHARGE syndrome.