Materials on Deafblindness

Texas Deafblind Outreach is actively involved in the development of materials specifically addressing issues about deafblindness for families and professionals. Among the many materials available through Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired Curriculum Department of special interest to staff serving individuals with deafblindness are these items:

Books and Pamphlets

Assessment Tools and Forms

Articles and Handouts

A Standard Tactile Symbol System- Graphic Language for Individuals who are Blind and Unable to Learn Braille
Braille/Print Literacy Issues and the Learning Media Assessment
Bringing It All Back Home: Family-Driven Assessment and ...
Deaf-Blind Multiple Disabilities Medicaid Waiver Update
Home Talk: A Family Assessment of Children Who Are Deafblind
How Well Can Your Child with Hearing Loss See?
- ¿Qué tan bien puede ver un niño con pérdida de audición?
Intervener Idea: Develop a routine that incorporates one of your student’s “Likes.”
Issues Regarding the Assessment of Vision Loss in Regard to Sign Language, Fingerspelling, Speechreading, and Cued Speech for the Student with Deafblindness
Let Me Check My Calendar
Looking at Self-Stimulation in the Pursuit of Leisure or I'm Okay, You Have a Mannerism
Make it Routine
Portfolios for Interveners
Syndromes/Conditions Associated with Deafblindness
Supporting High Quality Interactions with Students who are Deafblind
Transition To A Medicaid Waiver Program For Individuals Who Are Deafblind With Multiple Disabilities
Twelve Things You Can Do to Plan for Your Child’s Future Today
The van Dijk Approach to Child-Guided Assessment
What’s Your Pleasure? Teaching Leisure Skills
Syndromes and Conditions Associated with Deafblindness:
- Students with Usher Learn the Ropes
- A Word About Prematurity
- Syndromes Associated with Progressive Or Degenerative Vision or Hearing Loss
- Meningitis
- Brain Injury and Associated Vision and Hearing Loss
- Mitochondrial Diseases
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
- Vision and Hearing Loss Associated with Goldenhar Syndrome
- Hearing and Vision Loss Associated with Down Syndrome
- Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
- CHARGE Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy and Children with Vision and Hearing Loss
- Education Protocol for Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
- Syndromes/Conditions Associated with Deafblindness
By Persons with Deafblindness
- Love my Life, Swimming, and Texas Longhorns!
- My First Scuba Diving Lesson
- Driving with Usher Syndrome
Parenting a Child with Deafblindness
- Brothers and Sisters: Strategies for Supporting Siblings Of Children who are Deaf Blind
- A Halloween to Remember
- We Finally Made It!
- Abraham Has a Friend
- "Tuff" Love or Raising Laurie
- Letter to Laurie
- Lessons Learned
- Inclusion in Church Communities
- He's Not Crazy, He's My Husband
- Just a Little Further Down the Road
- It Happened to Mary and Joseph
- Refelections on the First Three Years of Having a Child with a Disability
- Toilet Training Children with Deafblindness- Issues and Strategies
- Transition To A Medicaid Waiver Program For Individuals Who Are Deafblind With Multiple Disabilities
- Twelve Things You Can Do to Plan for Your Childs Future Today
Vision and Hearing Loss
- Cochlear Implants
- The Importance of Auditory Training for Children Who are Deafblind
- Assistive Listening Devices
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Neuropathy
- Neurological Visual Impairment - Also Known as- Cortical Visual Impairment, Delayed Visual Maturation, Cortical Blindness
- Minimal Losses...Major Implications
- Early Identification of Hearing and Vision Loss is Critical to a Child's Development
- Central Auditory Processing Disorders
- How Well Can Your Child with Hearing Loss See?
  - ¿Qué tan bien puede ver un niño con pérdida de audición?
Assessment
- Key Elements for Effective Assessment of Children who are Deafblind
- The van Dijk Approach to Child-Guided Assessment
- Braille/Print Literacy Issues and the Learning Media Assessment
- Bringing It All Back Home: Family-Driven Assessment and ...
- Home Talk: A Family Assessment of Children Who Are Deafblind
- Braille/Print Literacy Issues and the Learning Media Assessment
Language, Concept Development and Communication:
- Make It Routine
- Let Me Check My Calendar
- A Standard Tactile Symbol System- Graphic Language for Individuals who are Blind and Unable to Learn Braille
- New Teacher Series: Getting Started with Activity Routines
- Get Out in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans
- Supporting High Quality Interactions with Students Who are Deafblind - Part One: A Summary of Current Research
- A Trip to the Doctor Turns GOOD!
- Planning and Supporting a More Active Life at Home
- What A Concept!
- Learning to Communicate
Active Learning:
- Introduction to Active Learning
- Active Learning and the Exploration of Real Objects
- Five Phases of Educational Treatment Used in Active Learning
- Job One for Educators: Becoming a Good Playmate
Touch:
- The Importance of Touch in Parent-Infant Bonding
- Creating and Using Tactile Experience Books For Young Children with Visual Impairments
- Hand-Over-Hand Guidance- What Lesson Do We Teach?
- Feelin' Groovy- Functional Tactual Skills
Orientation and Mobility:
- Orientation and Mobility Training for Students Who Are Deafblind: Going Beyond the Blue Book
- A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place
Sexuality
- Strategies for Minimizing the Risk of Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Health Care -- Excerpts from Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed
- Preparing Your Daughter for Her Menstrual Cycle
Recreation and Leisure:
- Creating Pathways for Children with Deafblindness - The NTAC/NFADB Parent Training
- What's Your Pleasure? Teaching Leisure Skills
- Looking at Self-Stimulation in the Pursuit of Leisure or I'm Okay, You Have a Mannerism

Transition Issues

Videotapes

Other materials

SEE/HEAR newsletter

A quarterly newsletter for families and professionals on visual impairments and deafblindness.

VER/OÍR Noticiero

Noticiero trimestral para familias y especialistas en incapacidades de la vista y sordo-ciegos.