Name: Hand in Hand for Educators and Parents of Students with Dual Sensory Impairments
Start: 2024-09-18T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-20T15:30:00-05:00
Location: 3815 Magnolia Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63110

Hand in Hand for Educators and Parents of Students with Dual Sensory Impairments

Hand In Hand: Understanding Deafblindness
September 18-20, 2024
October 2-4, 2024
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2GY6X6T
This course provides instructional strategies and practices specific to the education of students with combined vision and hearing loss with or without additional disabilities. The course is taught by specialists in the field of DeafBlindness and contains two sessions. Session one, includes information on such topics as common causes of DeafBlindness, assessments specific to students with DeafBlindness, and instructional strategies shown to be most impactful for this population of learners. Session two, dives deep into the communication needs of learners with DeafBlindness and the specific application of materials from part one for the individual students being served by participants. Follow-up coaching and mentoring is available from MoDBTAP Project staff to deepen comfort levels with real-world application.
The target audience for this course includes any members of the educational team serving a student with combined vision and hearing loss inclusive of those with multiple disabilities. We welcome all teachers (general or special ed.), the learner’s caregivers/parents, paraprofessionals, related service providers, or post-secondary students intending to work with learners with combined vision and hearing differences.