For teaching professionals
Deafblindness and the other senses
Learning environment
Communication with deafblind people
Professionals working with families
Assessments: what and how to observe
Curriculum
For families
How the SEN system works
School-aged provision
Learning environment
Online documents
Sense's publications section
Quality Standards in Education Support Services for Children and Young People who are Deafblind/ Multi-Sensory-Impaired (pdf, 125kb)
Written for professionals, it explains how to ensure deafblind children and young people access education through high quality support.
Other formats
'Child-guided strategies for assessing children who are deafblind or have multiple disabilities', Dr. Jan van Dijk and Catherine Nelson (CD-ROM)
Includes the following:
- a wealth of information on deafblindness
- many of Jan van Dijk's key papers
- five case study assessments, supported by videoclips
Websites
The University of Birmingham: Multi-sensory and deafblindness programme
This programme enables teachers and others working in education related fields to work more effectively with learners who are deafblind (multisensory impaired).
www.deafblind.co.uk and www.deafblind.com
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 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.
Deafblind International 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 works mainly with people with acquired deafblindness and the website has relevant information.
The Nordic Staff Training Centre for Deafblind Services site includes information about their role and training courses, their online library catalogue and further links.
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) website has information related to deafness, including factsheets on a range of issues.
The Royal National Institute for the Blind website contains a mass of information on visual impairment. There are a number of factsheets, including many relevant to people with multiple disabilities.
The Sense Scotland website has information and a range of links particularly to Scottish organisations.
The Scottish Sensory Centre site 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.
