Articles

Each month we will post new articles. We hope you find them useful!

August 2020 Articles

Dual sensory impairment in older adults and risk of dementia from the GEM Study

Challenges of teaching the deaf-blind learner in an education setting in Johannesburg: Experiences of educators and assistant educators

July 2020 Articles

Project SASI: a community engagement project to increase recruitment and retention of professionals working with students with sensory impairments in rural and remote schools.

Increased incidence of age-related macular degeneration in sensorineural hearing loss: A population-based cohort study

Challenges of teaching the deaf-blind learner in an education setting in Johannesburg: Experiences of educators and assistant educators.

Useful links:

Follow the Child: Approaches to Assessing the Functional Vision and Hearing of Young Children and Congenital Deaf-Blindness - David Brown

The sensory integration perspective and what it offers us in the field of deafblindness - David Brown

The Forgotten Sense - Proprioception - David Brown

A curriculum for children with multi-sensory-impairment from MSI Unit Victoria School Birmingham

https://www.sense.org.uk/content/msi-curriculum

National Center on DeafblindnessA� ( USA)

https://nationaldb.org/

Intervener Learning Modules: Open Hands Open Access

https://nationaldb.org/ohoa

IEP Quality Indicators for students with Deafblindess

http://www.tsbvi.edu/attachments/other/IEP_Indicators.pdf

Center on Child Development Harvard University

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/serve-and-return/

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-the-science-of-resilience/

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-the-science-of-neglect-video/

Sexuality Education Resources for Students with Deafblindness

http://documents.nationaldb.org/products/sex-ed.pdf

Assessment of Deafblind Access to Manual Language Systems

http://www.dblink.org/pdf/adamls.pdf

Perkins School for the Blind

http://www.perkinselearning.org/topics/deafblindness

Active Learning

http://www.activelearningspace.org/

Orientation and Mobility

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1804265&backurl=/shelf/my

 

Videos

Susan Starnes Talks: Working with Families and Children with UshersA�Syndrome

SenseofTaste (1)