Individuals with combined vision and hearing loss or DeafBlindness face unique challenges in learning and development. The impact of this dual sensory impairment typically impacts all areas of learning.
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Paul Hart Videos (Updated 11/30/2020)
2017 Texas Symposium on DeafBlindness
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Podcasts [Opening & Closing Keynotes and Panel discussion]
- Promoting the Use of the Outdoors with and for People who are DeafBlind for Leisure, Educational and Therapeutic Purposes - Dr. Joe Gibson
- An Active Lifestyle; Two Experiences - George Stern and Andrew Cohen
- Impact of Stress on Brain Architecture and Resilience - Dr. Judy Cameron
- What Harvard's Research Means for Children who are DeafBlind - Panel (Dr. Judy Cameron, Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk, Bernadette van den Tillaart, David Brown, and Robbie Blaha with facilitators Chris Montgomery and Matt Schultz)
- The Importance of Emotional Connection for Human Health and Happiness: How our early experiences of connection shape expectations about how other people are likely to treat us - Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk
Select Video Interviews
Deafblind Insights - David Brown
Deafblind Insights - Joe Gibson
Deafblind Insights - Suzanne Zeedyk
2015 Texas Symposium on DeafBlindness
Keynote Presentations
Please See Me as the Person I Am
Empowering a DeafBlind Community
Family Experiences
Trey's Recycling: Getting Involved in Community Life
Special Interview
Tactile Reciprocal Interactions & BETs
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness
2016-2017
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Auditory Training for Students with MIVI
2015-2016
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Introduction
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Audiological Testing
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Listening Devices
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Functional Hearing Evaluation
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Auditory Training
Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness: Learning Media Assessment
Other topics
Sexuality Education for the Student with DeafBlindness
Stories of Success after Graduation
Strategies to Help Young People with DeafBlindness and Behavior Issues
2017 Texas Symposium on DeafBlindness
Podcasts [Opening & Closing Keynotes and Panel discussion]
Outdoors with and for People who are DeafBlind
Original webcast date: 3/3/2017
Description: Dr. Joe Gibson, Outdoor Activities Coordinator, Sense Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland Dr. Gibson was the opening keynote speaker at the Symposium. He discussed developing an understanding of some of the theories relating to the beneficial use of the outdoor environment and how these might apply to people who are DeafBlind. He shared practices of and opportunities for using the outdoors with people who are DeafBlind and different cultural ways of using and viewing the outdoor environment.
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An Active Lifestyle - Two Experiences
Original webcast date: 3/3/2017
Description: George Stern and Andrew Cohen each talk about living active lives as individuals who have deafblindness.
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Impact of Stress on Brain Architecture and Resilience
Original webcast date: 3/3/2017
Description: Dr. Judy Cameron, Professor, University of Pittsburgh and member of the Harvard Center on Child Development, Pittsburg, PA Science tells us that early childhood is a time of both great promise and considerable risk. Having responsive relationships with adults, growth-promoting experiences, and healthy environments for all young children helps build sturdy brain architecture and the foundations of resilience. The following key scientific concept areas and their impact on child development will also be discussed: toxic stress, serve and return interactions, executive function and self regulation. Dr. Cameron will discuss the developing brain and what research shows related to the impact of stress on this development.
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What Harvard's Research Means for Children who are DeafBlind
Original webcast date: 3/3/2017
Description: Dr. Judy Cameron, Professor, University of Pittsburgh and member of the Harvard Center on Child Development, Pittsburg, PA Suzanne Zeedyk, Developmental Psychologist, Founder of the Organization connected baby, Dundee, Scotland Bernadette van den Tillaart, M.Ed., Deafblind Consultant, Ohio State School for the Blind, Columbus, OH David Brown, Deafblind Consultant, San Francisco, CA Robbie Blaha, Deafblind Consultant, Texas Deafblind Outreach, Austin, TX Following Dr. Cameron's presentation deafblind experts Bernadette van den Tillaart, Suzanne Zeedyk, David Brown and Robbie Blaha joined in a plenary discussion about how this information relates to individuals with deafblindness and what it means for us in interacting with these individuals at school, home and in the community.
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Emotional Connection for Human Health and Happiness
Original webcast date: 3/4/2017
Description: Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk, Founder of the connected baby and Research Professor at the University of Dundee, Scotland. What does emotional connection during infancy look like, and why are early experiences so important to later human functioning? In this informal workshop, Suzanne will use video footage of DeafBlind and non-DeafBlind infants to illuminate patterns of emotional exchange, exploring the biological consequences these early patterns hold for later development. This platform will leave us well placed to think more deeply about how the early life experiences of DeafBlind people, usually unknown and unconsidered, go on to affect the way they relate to practitioners, care-givers and families later in childhood and adulthood.
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Deafblind Insights - David Brown
Description: interview with David Brown, Education Specialist, California Deaf-Blind Services.
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Deafblind Insights - Joe Gibson
Description: Interview with Dr. Joe Gibson Outdoor Activities Coordinator; Sense Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Deafblind Insights - Suzanne Zeedyk
Description: Interview with Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk, founder, Connected Baby.
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2015 DeafBlind Symposium in Austin, TX
Please See Me as the Person I Am
Description: Keynote by Bernadette van den Tillaart (Netherlands) & Gunnar Vege (Norway) at the 2015 DeafBlind Symposium in Austin, TX. Gunnar and Bernadette introduce the concepts of "co-presence" and Bodily Emotional Traces (BETs). Through role play and videos, they demonstrate how an active communication partner (parent, educator, caregiver, etc) can enter the tactual communication of a person with DeafBlindness and equally share in his/her experience of the world. When the communication partner comments on these shared experiences, using signs form the language of the culture, it both, affirms the person with DeafBlindness, and opens a cognitive door language development.
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Empowering a Deafblind Community
Description: Keynote by disability rights lawyer, Haben Girma on developing and celebrating her identity as an individual who is DeafBlind. Haben describes how she has grown through connections with the DeafBlind community and the benefits she discovered in letting friends and co-workers know she is DeafBlind and prefers tactile communication.
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Take the Bull by the Horns
Description: Larry and Denise Sewell are parents of a child with DeafBlindness. Their son will be graduate from school soon and retun to his home community as a young adult. "Taking the Bull by the Horn," describes the determination and support the Sewell's needed to help make their transition plan a success. Recorded at the 2015 DeafBlind Symposium in Austin, TX.
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Trey's Recycling: Getting Involved in Community Life
Description: Dinitra Rideaux describes how her son, Trey, is becoming more involved in his small country town, through his own recycling business, exercise routine, and other activities. Recorded at the 2015 DeafBlind Symposium in Austin, TX.
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Just Be Brave!
Description: Rachel Allen yearned for friendship and found it in her high school drill team. Rachel and her mother, Catherine, share a glimpse of their fantastic, frustrating, high-energy, and sometimes heartbreaking journey. Recorded at the 2015 DeafBlind Symposium in Austin, TX.
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Tactile Reciprocal Interactions & BETs
Original webcast date: 02/21/2015
Description: An interview with Bernadette Van Den Tillaart and Gunnar Vege, who both work with children with congenital DeafBlindness. Their experiences and research have led them to emphasis the need for educators to enter into the tactile world of the child with DeafBlindness, to mirror and affirm a child's experiences and emotions, from which a child becomes increasingly self-aware and better able to communicate and interact with the environment.
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Hearing Issues for Students with DeafBlindness
2016-2017
Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Auditory Training for Students with MIVI
Original webcast date: 10/19/2016
Description: This webinar will explore the connection between the auditory system and the development of sensory motor and language skills. We will examine the importance of creating active learning routines which focus on helping children who are blind, DeafBlind with multiple impairments learn to listen for sound cues in order to be able to move and interact with the people and objects in their environment more independently.
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2015-2016
Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Introduction
Original webcast date: 09/18/2014
Description: This is the first video in a series of webinars about hearing issues for students with DeafBlindness. This program covers basic anatomy of the ear, terminology related to hearing impairments, and how dual sensory impairment affects educational performance. Facilitators are Chris Montgomery and Adam Graves, Educational Consultants for the DeafBlind Project at the Outreach department of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Audiological Testing
Description: This is the second video in a series of webinars about hearing issues for students with DeafBlindness. This program is a discussion with Educational Audiologist Lisa Sutherland about types of testing and how to educators and family members can help students with multiple impairments prepare for audiological testing. Facilitators are Chris Montgomery and Adam Graves, Educational Consultants for the DeafBlind Project at the Outreach department of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Listening Devices
Original webcast date: 1/22/2015
Description: This is the third video in a series of webinars about hearing issues for students with DeafBlindness. This program is a discussion with Educational Audiologist Lisa Sutherland about medical devices, i.e. hearing aids and cochlear implants and the unique listening needs of students with DeafBlindness. Facilitators are Adam Graves and Chris Montgomery, Educational Consultants for the DeafBlind Project at the Outreach department of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness #4
Description: 03/26/2015 This is the fourth webinar about hearing issues for students with DeafBlindness. This program discusses the rationale and process for creating an Informal Functional Hearing Evaluation. Facilitators Adam Graves and Chris Montgomery, Educational Consultants for the DeafBlind Project at the Outreach department of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are joined by TSBVI Teacher of the DeafBlind, Deanna Peterson.
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Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Auditory Training
Description: 05/21/2015 This is the fourth webinar about hearing issues for students with DeafBlindness. This program discusses auditory training that addresses specific concerns for students who are DeafbBlind. Facilitators Adam Graves and Chris Montgomery, Educational Consultants for the DeafBlind Project at the Outreach department of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are joined by Susie Tiggs, Deaf & Hard of Hearing Specialist for Region 11 ESC, and Kate Hurst, Statewide Staff Development Coordinator for TSBVI Outreach Programs.
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Hearing Issues for Students with Deafblindness: Learning Media Assessment
Original webcast date: 12/03/2015
Description: A documented hearing loss creates specific differences in assessing and interpreting data for learning media assessments for students with DeafBlindness. This webinar will discuss a collaboration process between the TVI and the TDHH to determine general and literacy media that includes a review of audiometric data and the functional impact of the hearing loss in instructional settings. This webinar expands on topics and information presented in the Hearing Issues Series from the previous year. Participants will need to have viewed the “Introduction to Hearing Loss” and “Audiological Testing” webinars prior to viewing this session. Facilitated by Adam Graves, DeafbBlind Specialist with TSBVI Outreach Programs.
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Sexuality Education for the Student with Deafblindness
Original webcast date: 02/27/2014
Description: TETN 20441, Sexuality Education for the Student with DeafBlindness presented by Robbie Blaha, M. Ed. The topic of this video is Issues in Sexuality and DeafBlindness: Modesty, Appropriate Touch, and Menstruation. These topics are taken from the IDEA/OSEP approved book Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals who are DeafBlind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed.
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- Introduction 01:00
- Online Resources 03:05
- Menstruation 09:03
- Teaching Modesty - Strategies Part 1 08:57
- Modesty 06:57
- Teaching Modesty - Strategies Part 2 10:14
- Modesty Summary 05:40
- Appropriate Touch 05:06
- Appropriate Touch - Teaching Strategies Part 1 11:41
- Appropriate Touch - Teaching Strategies Part 2 10:01
- Appropriate Touch - Teaching Strategies Part 3 08:58
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Stories of Success after Graduation
Original webcast date: 4/4/2014
Description: TETN 20443 Stories of Success after Graduation is presented by David Wiley, consultant with the Texas Deafblind Project. He shows four videos of adults who are DeafBlind and have additional disabilities; and how these persons live, years after leaving the familiar routines of school behind. David outlines some ways to measure "success" after graduation; i.e. active life, access to the community, social connections, support to pursue interests, and meaningful activities.
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Strategies to Help Young People with Deafblindness and Behavior Issues
Original webcast date: 01/15/2015
Description: TETN 32955 Strategies for Difficult Behavior in DB Students is presented by David Wiley, Transition Consultant with the Texas DeafBlind Project. He explores how the unique sensory impairments of DeafBlindness contribute to challenging behaviors and presents some strategies for supporting positive behavior.
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Paul Hart: The Fantastic World of Touch
Paul Hart: The Fantastic World of Touch
Description: Paul Hart discusses The Fantastic World of Touch
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Paul Hart: Communication Partners
Paul Hart: Communication Partners
Description: Paul Hart discusses Communication Partners
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Paul Hart: Valuing Tactile Body Communication
Paul Hart: Valuing Tactile Body Communication
Description: Paul Hart discusses Valuing Tactile Body Communication
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Paul Hart: Communicative Musicality
Paul Hart: Communicative Musicality
Description: Paul Hart discusses Communicative Musicality
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Paul Hart: Meaning Conveyed Through Touch
Paul Hart: Meaning Conveyed Through Touch
Description: Paul Hart discusses Meaning Conveyed Through Touch
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Paul Hart: Double-Sided Zone of Proximal Development
Paul Hart: Double-Sided Zone of Proximal Development
Description: Paul Hart discusses Double-Sided Zone of Proximal Development
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Paul Hart: "That's Just Something She Does"
Paul Hart: "That's Just Something She Does"
Description: Paul Hart discusses "That's Just Something She Does"
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Paul Hart: Prioritizing Declarative Communication
Paul Hart: Prioritizing Declarative Communication
Description: Paul Hart discusses Prioritizing Declarative Communication
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Paul Hart: Anything Can Be a Conversation
Paul Hart: Anything Can Be a Conversation
Description: Paul Hart discusses Anything Can Be a Conversation
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Paul Hart: The Curriculum is the Child
Paul Hart: The Curriculum is the Child
Description: Paul Hart discusses The Curriculum is the Child
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Paul Hart: My Perfect Day
Paul Hart: My Perfect Day
Description: Paul Hart discusses My Perfect Day
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Paul Hart: Arts and Recreation as an Equalizer
Paul Hart: Arts and Recreation as an Equalizer
Description: Paul Hart discusses Arts and Recreation as an Equalizer
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