Resources
Brief Overview of Videos/CD ROMs/DVDs
You and Me – Keeping in Touch
A DVD and Booklet offering information and advice on age related dual sensory loss (deafblindness). This valuable resource provides information on the causes of dual sensory loss and impact along with practical ways to support the person with dual sensory loss.
Assume Nothing: Deafblindness – An Introduction (1998)
The primary purpose of this video is for deafblind awareness - to be used for training and community education. Highlighted are the unique situations of six individuals, aged from young children to adults, and all with varying degrees of hearing and vision loss and varying abilities. (22 minutes, open-captioned, video only)
“Where do I begin?” Developing Communication With Children Born Deafblind (2000)
Key strategies for effective communication development are highlighted, including the following: making contact, building rapport, acknowledging communication efforts, touch cues and object-symbols, tactile signing, routines and choice-making. Strategies are child-directed and demonstrated across various settings – home, school and community. (23 minutes, open-captioned, video/CD only)
“We Have Contact!” Interacting effectively with children who are deafblind and with other conditions. (2004)
A cornerstone to a child’s development and participation in his or her world is communication. Children who are deafblind need their communication efforts acknowledged, reinforced and enjoyed.
In "We Have Contact!" we expand on the underlying principles used in establishing and developing a personalised communication system for each individual. The examples used are from Individual Communication Guides.
These are specially produced videos demonstrating a particular child’s personalised communication system, so that all those who have contact with a child can learn to interact effectively through consistent use of that system, and most importantly, to acknowledge and respond to that person’s communication efforts. Although the main focus is on children, these same strategies can be applied to adults, as will be demonstrated. (27 minutes, open-captioned, PAL or NTSC Video/DVD)
REVIEW:
Link to Deafblind Perspectives in Journals
Please read the highly positive review written regarding the 'We have Contact!' video in Deaf-Blind Perspectives. This journal is published by the Teaching Research Institute of Western Oregon University and provides information about topics related to deaf-blind people.
"We Have Contact! presents a sensitive and respectful approach to interacting effectively with individuals who are deaf-blind and have additional disabilities. Strategies for interacting with children and adults are shown using examples demonstrating a particular deaf-blind individual’s personalized communication so that all who have contact with the individual can learn to interact effectively through consistent use of that system, and acknowledge and respond to that person’s communication efforts. Important concepts such as acknowledging behaviour as communication are presented by the use of examples of children of a variety of ages and one adult”. Deaf-Blind Perspectives, Fall 2004, Volume 12, Issue 1, p12. www.tr.wou.edu/tr/dbp/sep2004.htm
Deafblind Communication Methods – CD ROM
This "interactive" CD-ROM focuses on two-hand tactile fingerspelling and short-cut signs, as well as providing brief demonstrations of:
- Visual frame or Box Signing
- Close Vision Signing
- Tracking
- Tactile Signing
- Japanese Fingerbraille
- Tadoma
Compatible from a minimum Windows 95 platform. (30 minutes)
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