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This course provides instructional strategies and practices specific to the education of students with combined vision and hearing loss. The course is taught by specialists in the field of Deafblindness and contains two parts. Part One is held virtually and 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. Part Two dives deep into the communication needs of learners with deafblindness and the specific application of material from part one for the individual students being served by participants. Follow up coaching, and mentoring is available from training faculty 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. This may be teachers (general or special ed.), the learners caregivers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, or post-secondary students intending to work with learners with combined vision and hearing loss. |
