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A group of teachers in the Deafblind Program at Perkins School for the Blind presented an hour-long webinar on various aspects of literacy for children with deafblindness: Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind with Christa...
Deafblind
Posted by Charlotte Cushman
Adaptations for a child who has a combined vision and hearing loss will depend on many factors, such as the amount of vision and hearing the child has, age, cognitive abilities, motor skills, and personal interests. This post is the first of four parts...
Posted by Linda Mamer
This post is a collection of my favorite applications (apps) related to hearing, speech work, and sign language. This list may be helpful to anyone working with children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind, including Speech Language...
Posted by Liamsmom
Create your own books and activities for the blind or deafblind child in your life!
Liam’s story
A brief summary (very brief) of our Liam’s story: When my son was 2 ½ years old, he became sick with meningitis, the end...
Posted by Liamsmom
I adapted Goldilocks and the Three Bears for my 4-year-old son who is deaf-blind.
2 Bears:
I wanted to create a story box for my son that was based off of a classic children's story. My son is beginning to learn ASL. I chose the...
Posted by SPerreault
By Steve Perreault
The real purpose of this activity is to create motivation about braille for teenagers who are newly blind and congenitally deaf. This approach uses language experience stories written in contracted braille to give the...
Posted by Megan Mogan
by Megan Mogan, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
In my last post we talked about using van Dijk’s coactive movement strategies to establish meaningful and enjoyable topics for our early communicators. Next I want to share a pretty simple...
Posted by Liamsmom
Concept book:
My 3-year-old son Liam, who is newly deaf/blind (lost his sight and hearing to Meningitis a year ago) is learning ASL and picking up on sign language very quickly. The next set of books I wanted to make for my little...
Posted by Megan Mogan
Megan Mogan, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
I’m sure you are a little confused that this is a literacy post and I am stuffing frosting into my face next to a student in the photograph to the left. Well, I promise you it’s a...
Posted by Liamsmom
My son became deafblind a year ago from Meningitis when he was 2 1/2 years old. Before he became sick, one of his favorite things was to be read to and look at books. I didn't want that to stop just because he lost his sight and...
