Deafblindness Resources
Family Connections/MAPS Resources
MAPS: Planning for the Future of a Student with Visual and Hearing Impairments (Source: California Deaf-Blind Services). This is an excellent booklet on the process, from start to finish, which includes examples of the "maps.) Also available in Spanish just below the English version.
The MAPS Process: Seven Questions"
The McGill Action Planning System (MAPS): A strategy for building the vision. Article by Vandercook, T., York, J., and Forest, M. (1989). The Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 14.
Search ERIC under McGill Action Planning System (MAPS): A Strategy for Building the Vision
ABC’s of Education Making Action Plans (MAPs) by Anne Malatchi.
Deafblindness Overview Resources
From: Oregon Deafblind Project Overview Information
Click to view the Oregon Deafblind Project's Eligibility Chart.
Click to download and review Four basic categories of Deafblindness.
The CHARGE Syndrome Foundation
The National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The Oregon Deafblind Project’s 2006 Spring newsletter report on screening for Usher Syndrome using saliva samples and genetic testing.
Communication
The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness fact sheet Receptive Communication - How Children Understand Your Messages to Them
The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness fact sheet Expressive Communication.
Activities and Instruction
Activity Calendars by Millie Smith.
Ordering information for: Calendars for Students with Multiple Impairments Including Deafblindness by Robbie Blaha.
information on creating experience books.
Sign Language and Braille Resources
Click for an example of a fingerspelling chart.
Practice your skills at reading fingerspelling.
Order ASL songs on DVD.
Learn ASL at: "ASL University."
