Deaf-Blindness Toolkit: Tactile Communication & Access
A student who is deafblind experiences the world primarily through touch, so communication and learning both need to start there. This 49-page guide gives teachers and interveners practical, respectful ways to build communication, safety and participation for deafblind learners.
What's Inside
- Foundations: deaf-blindness in plain words, myths vs. facts, and a strengths spotlight
- Communication access: communication options, consent and touch, hand-under-hand support, object cues and tactile symbols, and building a communication routine
- Environment and safety: classroom setup for safe movement, predictable routines, and sensory access through touch
- Learning and participation: accessible literacy, math, science, and whole-group and small-group strategies
- Behavior and regulation: behavior as communication, co-regulation, and preventing overload
- Social connection and inclusion
- Teamwork: working with interveners and specialists
- Toolkit and real classroom scenarios
How It Helps You
- Gives you respectful, touch-based communication practices such as hand-under-hand support
- Helps you build predictable routines that prevent overload
- Supports participation in literacy, math and science lessons
Ways to Use It
Use it to plan communication routines, set up a safe classroom, and align strategies with interveners and the specialist team.
Who It's For
Special education teachers, interveners, and specialist teams.
Format
Digital download, 49 pages. Instant download.
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