General Resources | Center for Development & Disability | UNM Health System | Albuquerque, New Mexico

Assessment

An Administrator’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Students with DeafBlindness

Callier-Azusa Scale

TSBVI Assessments

Biobehavioral States

Biobehavioral States and Availability for Learning

Internal Versus External Issues Impacting Biobehavioral States

Classroom

Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Resources

Modification to the Learning Environment

Classroom Observation Instrument for Educational Environments Serving Students with Deaf-Blindness

Paths to Literacy: Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Resources

Perkins Course - Teaching Strategies for Students Who are Blind/VI with Multiple Disabilities in the Sensorimotor Stage of Development

College

NCDB College Students Who Are Deaf-Blind

NCDB Post-Secondary Education

Communication

The Communication Portfolio (Perkins)

Conversation Box

If You Can See it You Can Support It (Tactile Language)

Total Communication for Young Deafblind Learners (Perkins)

Video – Conversations: Connecting and Learning with Persons Who Are Deafblind

What is a Conversation Box?

What is Communication? (NCDB)

Communication Matrix

Communication Matrix

Communication Matrix Handbook

Using the Matrix to Plan Communication Goals

Video – Seven Levels of Communication Development (Communication Matrix)

Early Intervention

Early Interactions with Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Teaching Pre-Linguistic Communication

IEP

Educational Program Planning and IEP Development (NCDB)

The Role of the Family in IEP Development (NCDB)

Intervener/One-To-One Support

Interveners and Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Interveners: Providing Access for Students with Deaf-Blindness

Open Hands, Open Access (OHOA): Deaf-Blind Intervener Learning Modules

What is an Intervener? (NCDB)

Literacy

Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Resources

NCDB – Literacy for Children with Combined Vision and Hearing Loss

NCDB – Literacy for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind: Building a Foundation

Paths to Literacy – Book Box: Clifford’s Bedtime

Paths to Literacy – Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Resources

Paths to Literacy – Getting Books into the Hands of My 3-year-old, Deafblind Son

Perkins Course – Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind

Perkins Course – Literacy for Students with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities Including Deafblindness

Object Calendars

Calendars (TSBVI)

Calendar Boxes and Schedule Systems as Literacy Tools

Calendar Systems (NCDB)

Creating Object Schedules/Communication Systems for Home

Robbie Blaha Discusses Calendar Systems for Children with CHARGE Syndrome

Sex Education

NCDB – Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed

TSBVI – Sexuality Education for the Student with Deafblindness

Transition

Top 5 Keys to Transition for DeafBlind Youths: A Guide for Family Members

Transition Planning (NCDB)

Transition Planning for Students who are Deafblind