For teaching professionals
Deafblindness and other senses
Learning environment
Communication with deafblind people
Professionals working with families
Assessments: what and how to observe
For families
How the SEN system works
School-aged provision
Learning environment
Online documents
Sense's publications section
Quality Standards in Education Support Servcies for Children and Young People who are Deafblind/ Multi-Sensory-Impaired (pdf, 125kb). As it was written for professionals, it explains how to ensure deafblind children and young people access education through high quality support.
Websites
Coventry Society for the Blind (CSB) (opens in a new window)
The CSB is a registered charity that provides support, information, resources, training and social activities for people with a visual impairment in the Coventry area.
The University of Birmingham: Multi-sensory and deafblindness. (opens in a new window). This programme enables teachers and others working in education related fields to work more effectively with learners who are deafblind (multisensory impaired).
Deafblind.com (opens in a new window)
Both sites are run by James Gallagher, who is deafblind. They contain a huge amount of information on deafblindness, with lots of archive pages and links to other sites.
DBLink (opens in a new window) is the US National Information Clearinghouse on Children who are Deafblind. The site has lots of information, including articles, links, bibliographies on a range of subjects, and the online version of the journal Deafblind Perspectives . (opens in a new window)
Deafblind International (opens a new window) is the world association promoting services for deafblind people. The site includes artwork by deafblind people and archived articles from the magazine DbI Review .
Deafblind UK (opens a new window) works mainly with people with acquired deafblindness and the website has relevant information.
The Action on Hearing Loss (formerly Royal National Institute for Deaf People - RNID) (opens in a new window) has information related to deafness including factsheets on a range of issues.
The Royal National Institute for the Blind (opens in a new window) contains a mass of information on visual impairment. There are a number of factsheets including many relevant to people with multiple disabilities.
The Royal Association for Deaf People (RAD) (opens in a new window) promote the welfare and interests of Deaf people. They mainly support Deaf people whose first or preferred language is British Sign Language (BSL) but also work with people with all forms of deafness including those who are hard of hearing, deafened, or deafblind.
The Sense Scotland (opens in a new window) has information and a range of links particularly to Scottish organisations.
The Scottish Sensory Centre (opens in a new window) has a huge amount of useful information. It includes the Sensory Information Service (a UK-wide information service for those involved with people with hearing and/or visual impairments). This has a database of information on everything from service providers to types of hearing aid. The site also includes a number of papers and links to many other useful articles.
